 It is not just that marriage and motherhood along with traditional ideas of femininity had been dissolved, but that the question “where is the world that a mother can offer her child?” no longer had an answer (GK 165). As women experience cataclysmic developments of these kinds more profoundly and more existentially than men, it is up to women to be leaders during these processes of cultural transition (GK 174). The task, as Susman understands it, is not for women to cease being women, but, on the contrary, to take back and appropriate “male existence in order to achieve full female humanity” (GK 175). Woman, then, “must not only recognize, understand, and love man—she must in order to grasp his life really become man” (GK 175). In other words, woman, according to Susman, has to fully own the world even though—and because—it has been defined by man and has excluded her for millennia. Only a full and radical appropriation of maleness, she suggests, will render the transformation of woman into a new, self-determined female possible, and this transformation has already begun (GK 176). As she notes elsewhere: