A look at Justice Ginsburg's "difference feminism" ideology

Article here. Excerpt:

'But ordinarily Ginsburg, a pioneering women's-rights lawyer, doesn't emphasize supposed differences between male and female. Indeed, one of her best known opinions in the one striking down the Virginia Military Institute's all-male admissions policy. In that 1996 case, Ginsburg, writing for the court, noted disapprovingly that a lower court that upheld the all-make policy concluded that coeducation would alter "at least these three aspects of VMI program: physical training, the absence of privacy, and the adversative approach." (Again, my italics.)
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The notion that the Constitution should be interpreted in light of differences between men and women, or boys and girls, is more usually associated with "difference feminism" than with the notion that equality means treating the sexes exactly the same. Ginsburg is ordinarily associated with the latter, and older, approach to feminism. But wouldn't that view suggest that a 13-year old boy would be just as embarrassed by a strip search as a 13-year-old girl?'

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