By Janice McLaughlin
This significant textual content introduces scholars to either feminism and different social and political theories through an exam of the inter-relationship among diverse feminist positions and key modern debates. The ebook takes each one debate in flip, outlines the most subject matters, discusses diversified feminist responses and evaluates the consequences for real-life political and social matters. This easy constitution successfully redraws the map of latest feminist notion, delivering a clean and succinct precis of an intensive diversity of fabric and graphically demonstrating the continued relevance and price of a feminist viewpoint.
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Flax, 1992b: 460) Ahmed et al. argue that feminism must find a language that can allow it to understand and respond to ‘the multiply determined bodies, spaces and histories “women” assume and occupy’ (2000: 11). Previous certainties cannot be regained, because the world within which feminism exists has changed. : 13, original emphasis). It can be beneficial for feminism to destabilise its purpose, because this may fit better with the world around it (McLaughlin, 1997). Feminism does need to reconsider how it sets agendas, but this can lie at the centre of its future.
The problem is when the issue shifts to that of cultural rights. Okin (1994) and Nussbaum (1999b) are important critics of incorporating culturally-based norms into definitions of equal rights. Both assert that our examination of cultural practices and customs should focus on generating better formulations of the general good and be motivated by a desire to find out ‘that the other is one of us’ (Nussbaum, 1992: 241). For women who are denied the right to work, or full participation in the public sphere, because of culturally-based community customs, the right as an individual of equal worth to equality of opportunity is a vital and just principle.
Feminists therefore include in their critique of liberalism a rejection of this version of the human condition. Being self-interested is not a universal human condition, but the pattern of Western masculinity that has been fostered by, and privileged within, capitalism. Equal rights 37 Group rights Iris Marion Young articulates one of the most influential calls for group rights and participation. Rights for women, straight and lesbian, gay men, different ethnic and racial groups, and for the disabled are all representative of a politics that demands that special attention is paid to specific groups.
