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Mapping 21st-Century Feminist Theory. Feminist theory is a vast, enormously diverse, interdisciplinary field that cuts across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. As a result, this article cannot offer a historical overview or even an exhaustive account of 21st-century feminist theory. But it offers a genealogy and a toolkit for 21st ...
Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist
African American scholars led the way in requiring consideration of the ways in which experience is shaped by a multiplicity of social locations, including race, sexuality, dis/ability, age, social class, and gender (Crenshaw, 1991), and this work profoundly shaped the development of feminist standpoint theory. Accordingly, this epistemological ...
Feminist Perspectives on Power
As she puts it, "it is my contention that feminist theory must 'retrieve experience', but this cannot mean returning to a pre discursive female experience grounded in the commonalities of women's embodiment" (40). On her view, experience is always constructed in such a way that it "reflects oppressive discourses and power relations ...
In Defense of Experience
Joan Scott's important essay "The Evidence of Experience," first published in Critical. Inquiry in 1991, has arguably been one of the most influential contributions to the dismissal of first-person accounts of experience in feminist theory and politics in recent decades (Scott 1991). Even though her critique of the evidence of experience was ...
Feminist Philosophy
Continental feminist theory puts more emphasis on interpretation and deconstruction, and pragmatist feminism values lived experience and exploration. Coming out of a post-Hegelian tradition, both continental and pragmatist philosophers usually suspect that "truth," whatever that is, emerges and develops historically.
Feminist Theory Today
Feminist theory is not only about women; it is about the world, engaged through critical intersectional perspectives. Despite many significant differences, most feminist theory is reliably suspicious of dualistic thinking, generally oriented toward fluid processes of emergence rather than static entities in one-way relationships, and committed to being a political as well as an intellectual ...
Feminist theory
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, ... In this book and her essay, "Woman: ...
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The concept of "experience" became important in Anglo-American feminist theory during the second half of the twentieth century. Anglo-American feminist theorists used the idea of experience, and in particular, "woman's experience," as a foundational epistemology that complemented various political analyses of patriarchy and personal politics.
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The Theoretical Framework of Feminism
Feminism is not homogenous. The literature distinguishes the "first phase," the suffrage movement of the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, the feminism of the "second wave," which began in the 1960s and 1970s, and some distinguish a "third wave," referred to as post-feminism (Gable 1999).The first wave (also called the "old wave") arose along with the internal ...
An Introduction to Feminist Theory
The feminist movements of the 1960s and 70s were calling attention to the unfortunate female experiences under male power. There was a shift in feminist critique and theory by the 1980s that Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar helped move into action.
Feminist Theory: Definition and Discussion
Illustration by Hugo Lin. ThoughtCo. Feminist theory is a major branch within sociology that shifts its assumptions, analytic lens, and topical focus away from the male viewpoint and experience toward that of women. In doing so, feminist theory shines a light on social problems, trends, and issues that are otherwise overlooked or misidentified ...
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The model indicates the idea that, through knowledge and action, oppressive systems can be disrupted to support change and understanding. Concepts. The core concepts in feminist theory are sex, gender, race, discrimination, equality, difference, and choice. There are systems and structures in place that work against individuals based on these ...
Elaine Showalter as a Feminist Critic
Elaine Showalter as a Feminist Critic By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 24, 2016 • ( 7). Elaine Showalter is an influential American critic famous for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, which is a woman-centric approach to literary analysis, Her A Literature of their Own discusses the -female literary tradition which she analyses as an evolution through three phases.
Feminism and Feminist Ethics
A feminist ethic, which paid attention to these different identities and perspectives, became centrally important to taking women's lives and experiences seriously, and central to eliminating oppression of women, sexual minorities, and other oppressed groups. Thus, Jaggar framed feminist ethics as the creation of a gendered ethics that aims ...
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. First published Mon May 12, 2008; substantive revision Tue Jan 18, 2022. Feminism is said to be the movement to end women's oppression (hooks 2000, 26). One possible way to understand 'woman' in this claim is to take it as a sex term: 'woman' picks out human females and being a human female ...
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Hartsock's growing frustration with the evolution of feminist theory. Her criti- ... more first-personal meta-analysis of the state of feminist theory reflects her long political experience. She identifies two core themes in all these essays-power ... "Reoccupying Marxism as Feminism," is a set of three essays written between 1977 and 1991. The ...
Conflict Resolution: Feminist Perspectives
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1. Increasing gender equality. Feminist theories recognize that women's experiences are not only different from men's but are unequal. Feminists will oppose laws and cultural norms that mean women earn a lower income and have less educational and career opportunities than men. 2. Ending gender oppression.
Thinking Out Loud About Feminism
In my experience, feminism is a justice-seeking praxis - action and reflection, theory and movements, mutually informing each other. Feminism most often starts with the real-life experience of women, oppressed because an individual, group, or society views them as inferior and then seeks to enforce its ferocity by objectification, control ...
Feminist Ethics
Feminist Ethics aims "to understand, criticize, and correct" how gender operates within our moral beliefs and practices (Lindemann 2005, 11) and our methodological approaches to ethical theory. More specifically, feminist ethicists aim to understand, criticize, and correct: (1) the binary view of gender, (2) the privilege historically available to men, and/or (3) the ways that views about ...
Feminist Theory in Law: The Difference It Makes
"This essay is a consideration of the feminist project in law and two contemporary legal feminist approaches to the historical construction of women as "different"- a characterization that has had implications in regard to the way in which women are understood as objects and subjects of law. ... The notion of women's experiences is ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw's Intersectional Feminism
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989 to describe how systems of oppression overlap to create distinct experiences for people with multiple identity categories. Although intersectional theory and activism today are far-flung and embrace a wide variety of people, Crenshaw began with Black women, whose ...
Gender Dysphoria for Critical Theory
Gender dysphoria is typically construed as a medical concept. This understanding of gender dysphoria reflects how cisgender people interpret trans experience. This essay proposes an alternative concept of gender dysphoria for critical theory: on this account, gender dysphoria is alienation from cisgender forms of life. If the medicalized concept of gender dysphoria tacitly takes for granted ...
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Mapping 21st-Century Feminist Theory. Feminist theory is a vast, enormously diverse, interdisciplinary field that cuts across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. As a result, this article cannot offer a historical overview or even an exhaustive account of 21st-century feminist theory. But it offers a genealogy and a toolkit for 21st ...
African American scholars led the way in requiring consideration of the ways in which experience is shaped by a multiplicity of social locations, including race, sexuality, dis/ability, age, social class, and gender (Crenshaw, 1991), and this work profoundly shaped the development of feminist standpoint theory. Accordingly, this epistemological ...
As she puts it, "it is my contention that feminist theory must 'retrieve experience', but this cannot mean returning to a pre discursive female experience grounded in the commonalities of women's embodiment" (40). On her view, experience is always constructed in such a way that it "reflects oppressive discourses and power relations ...
Joan Scott's important essay "The Evidence of Experience," first published in Critical. Inquiry in 1991, has arguably been one of the most influential contributions to the dismissal of first-person accounts of experience in feminist theory and politics in recent decades (Scott 1991). Even though her critique of the evidence of experience was ...
Continental feminist theory puts more emphasis on interpretation and deconstruction, and pragmatist feminism values lived experience and exploration. Coming out of a post-Hegelian tradition, both continental and pragmatist philosophers usually suspect that "truth," whatever that is, emerges and develops historically.
Feminist theory is not only about women; it is about the world, engaged through critical intersectional perspectives. Despite many significant differences, most feminist theory is reliably suspicious of dualistic thinking, generally oriented toward fluid processes of emergence rather than static entities in one-way relationships, and committed to being a political as well as an intellectual ...
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, ... In this book and her essay, "Woman: ...
The concept of "experience" became important in Anglo-American feminist theory during the second half of the twentieth century. Anglo-American feminist theorists used the idea of experience, and in particular, "woman's experience," as a foundational epistemology that complemented various political analyses of patriarchy and personal politics.
Feminist Theory. Feminist Theory is an international peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminism. Feminist Theory is genuinely interdisciplinary and reflects the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and ...
Feminism is not homogenous. The literature distinguishes the "first phase," the suffrage movement of the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, the feminism of the "second wave," which began in the 1960s and 1970s, and some distinguish a "third wave," referred to as post-feminism (Gable 1999).The first wave (also called the "old wave") arose along with the internal ...
The feminist movements of the 1960s and 70s were calling attention to the unfortunate female experiences under male power. There was a shift in feminist critique and theory by the 1980s that Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar helped move into action.
Illustration by Hugo Lin. ThoughtCo. Feminist theory is a major branch within sociology that shifts its assumptions, analytic lens, and topical focus away from the male viewpoint and experience toward that of women. In doing so, feminist theory shines a light on social problems, trends, and issues that are otherwise overlooked or misidentified ...
The model indicates the idea that, through knowledge and action, oppressive systems can be disrupted to support change and understanding. Concepts. The core concepts in feminist theory are sex, gender, race, discrimination, equality, difference, and choice. There are systems and structures in place that work against individuals based on these ...
Elaine Showalter as a Feminist Critic By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 24, 2016 • ( 7). Elaine Showalter is an influential American critic famous for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, which is a woman-centric approach to literary analysis, Her A Literature of their Own discusses the -female literary tradition which she analyses as an evolution through three phases.
A feminist ethic, which paid attention to these different identities and perspectives, became centrally important to taking women's lives and experiences seriously, and central to eliminating oppression of women, sexual minorities, and other oppressed groups. Thus, Jaggar framed feminist ethics as the creation of a gendered ethics that aims ...
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. First published Mon May 12, 2008; substantive revision Tue Jan 18, 2022. Feminism is said to be the movement to end women's oppression (hooks 2000, 26). One possible way to understand 'woman' in this claim is to take it as a sex term: 'woman' picks out human females and being a human female ...
Hartsock's growing frustration with the evolution of feminist theory. Her criti- ... more first-personal meta-analysis of the state of feminist theory reflects her long political experience. She identifies two core themes in all these essays-power ... "Reoccupying Marxism as Feminism," is a set of three essays written between 1977 and 1991. The ...
The academic study of conflict resolution was born as as a critique of mainstream International Relations (IR), which explains why feminist theory and conflict resolution share many things in common. For example, both feminists and conflict resolution scholars challenge traditional power politics grounded in realist or neorealists analyses of ...
1. Increasing gender equality. Feminist theories recognize that women's experiences are not only different from men's but are unequal. Feminists will oppose laws and cultural norms that mean women earn a lower income and have less educational and career opportunities than men. 2. Ending gender oppression.
In my experience, feminism is a justice-seeking praxis - action and reflection, theory and movements, mutually informing each other. Feminism most often starts with the real-life experience of women, oppressed because an individual, group, or society views them as inferior and then seeks to enforce its ferocity by objectification, control ...
Feminist Ethics aims "to understand, criticize, and correct" how gender operates within our moral beliefs and practices (Lindemann 2005, 11) and our methodological approaches to ethical theory. More specifically, feminist ethicists aim to understand, criticize, and correct: (1) the binary view of gender, (2) the privilege historically available to men, and/or (3) the ways that views about ...
"This essay is a consideration of the feminist project in law and two contemporary legal feminist approaches to the historical construction of women as "different"- a characterization that has had implications in regard to the way in which women are understood as objects and subjects of law. ... The notion of women's experiences is ...
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989 to describe how systems of oppression overlap to create distinct experiences for people with multiple identity categories. Although intersectional theory and activism today are far-flung and embrace a wide variety of people, Crenshaw began with Black women, whose ...
Gender dysphoria is typically construed as a medical concept. This understanding of gender dysphoria reflects how cisgender people interpret trans experience. This essay proposes an alternative concept of gender dysphoria for critical theory: on this account, gender dysphoria is alienation from cisgender forms of life. If the medicalized concept of gender dysphoria tacitly takes for granted ...