Feminist, Female, Feminine 131 'Feminine' theory in its simplest definition would mean theori~s. concerned with the construction of femininity. From ~ feml~l~t perspective the problem with this kind of thought IS th~t.1t IS particularly prone to attacks ofbiologism and often unwlttlllgly ...
It has become a general assumption of feminist film theory that female spectators are more fluid in their capacity to identify with the other gender. For example, in her study of the fan phenomenon, Miriam Hansen (1991) has used the idea of spectatorial flexibility to explain why women in t...
Today there are very few platforms, religious or secular, from which women in western democracies cannot, in theory, speak. But in practice women’s speaking rights are still not equal to men’s: a lot of policing still goes on, and some of it is highly sexualized—like the graphic rap...
Feminist critiques of biological sex are rarely acknowledged by “gender critical” feminists because the very fact of those critiques cast doubt on the claim that the problematising of sex has its origins in the movement for trans rights or in “postmodern queer theory” to quote from another ...
theory in a postmodernist, non-naturalist mode and in the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe also a world without end. The cyborg incarnation is outside salvation history. Nor does it mark time on an oedipal calendar, ...
Again, Sexual Trade Union theory, or ‘the Green Pill’, explains this apparent feminist madness. Feminists do not give a rat’s arse about women or girls being raped or murdered by migrants. What they care about is limiting the sexual freedom of men in general, in order to shore up the...
Be all that as it may, I don't have much of a beef with the theory that a stressful job takes a toll on one's health and that therefore women taking on these jobs often experience resulting health problems. As a litigator coping with long hours, constant deadlines, constant conflicts ...
Rather Lewis’s argument has its roots in mediaeval corporation theory, and early modern debates over the ‘Divine Right’ of Stuart Monarchs. It was in the mediaeval period that the idea that a person could have a dual identity entered anglophone discussion. Thomas Hobbes, for example, drew ...
If one strand of feminist theory critiques the supposed rationality of masculinity, another characterizes masculinity as in itself harmful to women and other men. These are the theories most frequently characterized as male bashing, because they focus on male violence against women and on men's ...
INTRODUCTION TIMELY MEDITATIONS Do we live in the same time or different times? This simple question goes to the heart of recent cultural theory and politics. Debates about universals versus particulars and shared worlds versus incommensurable worlds are also arguments about our embeddedness in histor...