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| |Part of a series on| Although the title "difference feminism"
is a relatively recent addition to the feminist movement, the
philosophies of gender relations undergirding this category have
their roots as far back as the early Greeks. Forms of difference
feminism often stress a fundamental biological, emotional,
psychological or spiritual difference between the sexes. Reverse
gender polarity Edit Reverse gender polarity is the form of
difference feminism that asserts that women, per se, are
superior to men. It developed as the opposite of traditional
gender polarity that asserts that men, per se, are superior to
women. Traditional polarity was espoused beginning with
Aristotle. Reverse gender polarity, however, began in the
medieval era with the exaltation of feminine virtue by authors
like Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Lucrezia Marinelli. It
became prominent again in second-wave femi