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Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory by Marilyn Frye

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory Marilyn Frye ebook
ISBN: 9780895940995
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Page: 176
Format: pdf

Nov 18, 2013 - They had an insistent theme: Marxism and feminism can strengthen each other's grasp of social reality, and feminist activism can be empowered by an input of Marxist-feminist thinking. Dec 11, 2013 - Once a space of possibility and revolution, the dream of an egalitarian, online democratic culture soon collided with the reality that connectivity itself is not enough to establish community. But I wonder for most if they actually believe it to be a reality? So it was kind of a And it was only later that I returned with concerns about equality front and center (although other parts of my work, for instance in democratic theory and feminist epistemology, have dealt with equality in a very broad sense). Instead, fostering a comfortable and egalitarian Echoing the feminist mantra that “the personal is political,” Gould describes emotion as a culturally informed practice that can be shaped in ways that motivate civic engagement. Art of Theory: Your most cited essay is “What is the Point of Equality?” [Ethics, vol. Christine Lőw, Prominent in this minority feminist current at the conference were participants from two groups, one based in Canada, the other in Germany, each generating an encyclopaedic work of Marxist-feminist theory. At the same time shaming tactics don't work against people with “political correctness shields”, try to shame a feminist and you just get political correct shame back; “You just hate women!”. Jan 20, 2014 - I recently got an idea remembering an upload of an interview I recently put up and something I said in part of it–that some of the shaming tactics that feminists use actually discredit their theories and their ideology. Oct 17, 2013 - We were a pretty politically-oriented family, so we always had dinner table conversations about politics and public policy, justice and freedom and the like. Mar 11, 2011 - Feminist standpoint theory, then, makes a contribution to epistemology, to methodological debates in the social and natural sciences, to philosophy of science, and to political activism. It has been one of the most influential and debated theories . Hancock's (2007a) conceptualisation of intersectionality is a sufficiently Before continuing, it should be noted that when referring to feminist political theory or scholarship, this essay does not mean to suggest that this is one undivided body of work. Only through such struggles can we begin to see beneath the appearances created by an unjust social order to the reality of how this social order is in fact constructed and maintained. But political power works in another way too. Nov 1, 2013 - What is more, these categories are the effect of individual and structural influences, which interact with each other to produce political 'reality'.