in:
Heidelberg:
1991
,
111 - 117 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Riedel, Wolfgang |
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| Jahr: | 1991 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| It was a common notion both in eighteenth and nineteenth-century feminist discourse to consider married women's legal situation in terms of master-and-slave bondage. However, while slaves did not have the legal status of persons, women in order to be able to enter into the marriage contract, were necessarily treated as persons, at least until they had consented to become wives. Considering the idealistic premises of bourgeois individualism, it is more than just contradictory that the liberal state, guardian of bourgeois ideals and values, turned a blind eye to that immanent aporetic of its social, political, and economic order. Still liberal feminist adhere to these ideals, defending their moral value and power. More radical feminists such as E. Cady Stanton soon turned to a discourse oppositional to the liberalist heritage, including Mill's "The subjection of women". Even this landmark in the history of emancipation does not escape the imbroglio of conceptual posture and legal reality: it repeats as subtext the sexual politics of liberalist discourse . In the US, to compare women's lot to that of slaves meant to argue in terms of political and social reality; American feminists have based their oppositional discourse on facts rather than arguing about the incongruity of concepts and metaphors. | |
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