Feminism As Radical Humanism by Pauline Johnson

Author:Pauline Johnson [Johnson, Pauline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780813323589
Google: dx4mtAEACAAJ
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Published: 1994-08-17T04:41:43+00:00

Pateman thus announces the necessity for a whole new episode in feminism’s dynamic relations with liberalism. From a powerful new voice in an on-going unmasking critique of liberalism’s conception of the contracting self as disembodied subjectivity unencumbered by the accidentally of a particular history and context, feminism now affirms its interest in the reinterpretation of the main principles of liberalism in terms appropriate to the experience of ‘women-as-women’. On this account, feminism’s problems with liberalism essentially concern the restrictions which liberalism’s definitional conception of the self impose on the recognition of the plurality and diversity of human needs and aspirations in general and specifically with regard to those of women.

This contemporary feminist interest in reworking the political ethics of liberalism to take account of the particular character of the needs and experiences of modern women can be seen as giving a special focus to a wider debate on the possibility of democratising the formulations of liberalism. Pluralist communitarian critics of liberalism, like Michael Walzer, are similarly concerned to attempt to determine the new ways in which liberal ideals of universal justice and equality might be interpreted in terms consistent with the broad-based critique of the disembodied image of the self which has supported the formulation of these principles in conventional liberalism.24 Major feminist political theorists like Susan Moller Okin and Nancy Rosenblum have, however, serious misgivings about the capacity of communitarian pluralism to retain the vitality of the critique of domination which has been central to feminism’s own efforts to appropriate the critical values of liberalism.25

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