This article examines the feminist critique of liberalism as masculinist and its implications for feminism as a political project. It argues that this particular feminist version of liberalism is ahistorical and that it represses the ambiguities and confusions both of liberal texts and of the history...
of feminism. This strange plot indeed reflects some vulgar feminism. This feminism regards some woman’s transient traits as their nature. What the women should really quest only depends on an obscure identitybutwithout any universal criterion. And the criterion should be the virtue or reason. Wit...
With this aspect in mind, I try to consider evil, violence and injustice from a view of feminism as critique of violence. In considering this theme, one of the most important legacies of liberal vocabularies seems to reemerge. That is the right to resist. I propose a question. Does ...
Feminist standpoint theory posits feminism as a way of conceptualizing from the vantage point of women's lives. However, in current work on feminist standp... ROSEMARY,HENNESSY - 《Hypatia》 被引量: 34发表: 1993年 Liberal Jurisprudence and Abstracted Visions of Human Nature: A Feminist Critique...
The Group, novel by Mary McCarthy, published in 1963, that chronicles the lives of eight Vassar College friends from their graduation in 1933 to the funeral of Kay Strong, the protagonist, in 1940. The women believe that their superior education has give
" even as it expands the empire of the literary discipline.1[…]In this essay, I will attempt to examine the operation of the "worlding" of what is today "the Third World" by what has become a cult text of feminism: Jane Eyre.2 I plot the novel's reach and grasp, and locate ...
Okay, so I write a book, and let’s say that it has 20 characters in it. What is the acceptable percentage of them that should be transgender? How many boxes must I check in order to salve a blogger’s liberal angst? Let’s see… Only like 1 in 50,000 people have sex changes ...
I’m speaking of the hill that Rowling has inexplicably chosen to die on:trans-phobic feminism. In previous statements,tweets, and finally, last week, a3,000-word essay, Rowling has staked her intolerant claim that trans people are the ‘other,’ undeserving of affirmative protection, and are...
Asylum law functions through a dichotomy between an idealized notion of Europe as a site characterized by human rights, and non-European countries as sites
In this chapter, I identify and critically discuss three aspects of the history and trajectory of the human rights movement from the 1970s until today: its increasing tendency toward self-critique, its roots in and ongoing struggle with a commitment to b