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The new feminist philosophy of the body : Haraway, Butler and Brennan
Verfasst von:
Matisons, Michelle Renée
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London [u.a.]:
1998
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9 - 34 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Matisons, Michelle Renée |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Recent feminist theory, both dialectical and poststructuralist, challenges traditional dualistic portrayals of the body that naturalize women's oppression. Most accessible is Donna Haraway, who posits ironical implosions as a way of transcending the nature/culture binary. Judith Butler's radical constructivism is more sophisticated than Haraway, offering a rigorous deconstruction of the concept "matter". Teresa Brennan, the article argues, is still more complex. Her ideas reveal that certain elements of Butler's thought collude with the historically specific, subject-centered egoism that Butler claims to undermine. Brennan elaborates a historical, dialectical philosophy of the body; she provides a detailed account of how the human infant becomes the social, linguistic and gendered self. Her project is the beginning of a new feminist philosophy of the body that is constructivist, but that also boldly offers a theory of energetic relationality which includes the infant's in utero experience, defying Butler's refusal to signify various psycholphysical processes. | |
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