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If It’s Too Good to be True, It Ain’t: On Feminist Epistemology and a Historical Myth, Valeria Edelsztein and Claudio Cormick
According to an account popularized by Kim Wallen (and, more importantly, according to the appropriation of this story by feminist epistemologists), it was only since 1976 (via the introduction of the concept of “proceptivity”, which contrasted with that of “receptivity”) that scientific studies of animal sexuality, particularly that of primates, were able to account for behaviours of “active solicitation” of sexual intercourse displayed by females—a turn which allegedly followed decades of viewing females as passive and thus unable to initiate sexual intercourses.
