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Stoller, Silvia. "The Indeterminable Gender." Janus Head 13, no. 1 (2013): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh20141312.
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What kind of ethics can we consider in the framework of feminist phenomenology that takes poststructuralist feminism into account? This seems to be a difficult task for at least two reasons. First, it is not yet clear what ethics in poststructuralist feminism is. Second, phenomenology and poststructuralism are still regarded as opposites. As a phenomenologist with strong affinities to poststructuralism, I want to take on this challenge. In this paper, I will argue that phenomenology and poststructuralism share the idea of the “indeterminable.” If this idea is applied to the topic of gender, we can speak of an “indeterminable gender.” Moreover, phenomenology and poststructuralism support an ethical attitude toward genders inasmuch as they both avoid making problematic determinations. My goal is to explore what the so-called “indeterminable gender” is and to illuminate the ethical implications of this concept.
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RIBEIRO (UFPA), Joyce Otânia Seixas. "DIVERGÊNCIAS E CONVERGÊNCIAS ENTRE O FEMINISMO DECOLONIAL DE MARÍA LUGONES, A HISTORIOGRAFIA FEMINISTA E O FEMINISMO PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11154.
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Our intention is to carry out an introductory comparative analysis of three relevant feminist approaches that divide the gender studies scene. Despite the risks, the methodological decision was made by theoretical research (Salvador, 1986; Apple, 1994), aware that it is politically informed, as theories reveal interests of the class, gender, sexuality, nation, race/ethnicity, generation, and are linked to social practice. To proceed with the study, we highlight three aspects, which are: the assumptions, the notion of gender, and the political commitment. The results we have reached inform about the existence of divergences and convergences between these feminist approaches, confirming the irreconcilable divergence between feminist historiography and poststructuralist feminism, inconsistent convergence between poststructuralist feminism, and decolonial feminism, and convergence between feminist historiography and decolonial feminism.Keywords: Feminist historiography. Poststructuralist feminism. Decolonial feminism.
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Moi, Toril. "“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1735–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1735.
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If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.
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Sekulic, Nada. "Identity, sex and 'women's writing' in French poststructural feminism." Sociologija 52, no. 3 (2010): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1003237s.
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The paper discusses political implications of the feminist revision of psychoanalysis in the works of major representatives of 1970s French poststructuralism, and their current significance. The influence and modifications of Lacan's interpretation of imaginary structure of the Ego and linguistic structure of the unconscious on explanations of the relations between gender and identity developed by Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and H?l?ne Cixous are examined. French poststructuralist feminism, developing in the 1970s, was the second major current in French feminism of the times, different from and in a way opposed to Simone de Beauvoir's approach. While de Beauvoir explores 'women's condition' determined by social and historical circumstances, French feminists of poststructuralist persuasion engage with problems of unconscious psychological structuring of feminine identity, women's psychosexuality, theoretical implications of gendered visions of reality, especially in philosophy, semiology and psychology, as well as opening up new discursive possibilities of women's and feminine self-expression through 'women's writing'. Political implications of their approach have remained controversial to this day. These authors have been criticized for dislocating women's activism into the sphere of language and theory, as well as for reasserting the concept of women's nature. Debates over whether we need the concept of women's nature - and if yes, what kind - and over the relation between theory and political activism, have resulted in the split between the so-called 'essentialist' and 'anti-essentialist' approaches in feminist theory, and the subsequent division into American (non-essentialist) and French (partly labeled as essentialist) strands. The division is an oversimplification and overlooks concrete historical circumstances that produced the divergence between 'materialist' and 'linguistic' currents in France.
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Giladi, Paul. "Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy." Hypatia 36, no. 2 (2021): 276–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.16.
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AbstractThis article has two aims: (i) to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and (ii) to argue that Butler's poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with Sellars's critique of conceptual analyses of knowledge. With regard to (i), I argue that Butler's objections to the definitional practice constitutive of certain ways of construing feminism is comparable to Sellars's critique of the analytical project geared toward providing definitions of knowledge. Specifically, I propose that moving away from a definition of woman to what one may call poststructuralist sites of woman parallels moving away from a definition of knowledge to a pragmatic account of knowledge as a recognizable standing in the normative space of reasons. With regard to (ii), I argue that the important parallels between Butler's poststructuralist feminism and Sellars's antirepresentationalist normative pragmatism about knowledge enable one to think of her poststructuralist feminism as mapping out pragmatic cognitive strategies and visions for doing philosophy. This article starts a conversation between two philosophers whom the literature has yet to fully introduce to each other.
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Al-Mahfedi, Mohammed. "The Laugh of the Medusa and the Ticks of Postmodern Feminism: Helen Cixous and the Poetics of Desire." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v1i1.20.
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This paper aims to explore Helen Cixous’ postmodernist trends in her formulations of a new form of writing known as ecriture feminine. The paper attempts to validate the view that Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa” is regarded as the manifesto of postmodern feminism. This is done by attempting a critical discourse analysis of Cixous' narrative of ecriture feminine. Deploying a multifaceted-framework, ranging from postmodernism to psychoanalysis through poststructuralist theory and semiotics, the study reveals Cixous' metamorphosing and diversified trend of feminist writing that transposes the subversion of patriarchy into a rather bio-textual feminism, known as bisexuality. The paper highlights the significance of Cixous’ essay as a benchmark of postmodern feminism.
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Fitriyah, Lailatul. "Poststructuralist-Feminist International Relations: A Point of Reconciliation?" Andalas Journal of International Studies (AJIS) 4, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/ajis.4.1.96-108.2015.
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The relationships between peace studies and international relations (IR) has never been easy. The “strategic” nature of inter-state relations in IR and its state-centric focus are some of the big challenges to the humanitarian nature of peace studies. However, the rise of feminism in IR in the 1980s has given us a new promise in opening the field of IR to a greater humanitarian focus which could take even the individual level of analysis into account. IR poststructuralist-feminism - which is understood as an IR feminist perspective which deconstruct the “common assumptions of culture” (Sylvester, 1994) including feminism itself - is particularly progressive in the sense that it does not only provide the room to problematize the basic assumptions of mainstream IR, but also room to even question the premises of the IR feminists themselves, a self-reflective quality shared by contemporary peace studies. One of the latest theoretical developments in poststructuralist-feminist IR is the “adoption” of positive psychology into IR methodology in order to take a deeper look into the mostly forgotten dimension of humans’ capability to flourish even under the most extreme condition (Penttinen, 2013). Again, this new proposal resonates with the current trend in peace studies scholarship in which peacebuilding processes are geared toward fuller ownership by the locals and harnesses their capabilities to survive. This article would like to analyze the potentialities of feminist approaches in IR, particularly those which come from the poststructuralist school of thought, as a fruitful “meeting point” for peace studies and IR. Once we identify the “meeting point,” hopefully it can bring us into a rich inter-disciplinary endeavor in the future as well as a better understanding of the dynamics of peacebuilding practices in the context of international relations.Key Words: international relations, poststructuralist feminist IR, peace studies, positive psychology, reflective practices
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Smart, Carol. "Law, Feminism and Sexuality: From Essence to Ethics?" Canadian journal of law and society 9, no. 01 (1994): 15–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0829320100003495.
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AbstractThis paper explores current thinking on the meanings of sex, gender and sexuality and on the relationship between each of these concepts. It suggests that whilst feminist theory has adopted a social constructionist view of gender and, to a lesser extent, sexuality, it has left sex to the conceptual domain of biology. It has also prioritised gender over sexuality conceptually. These issues are explored in the specific area of sexuality and law where it is argued that recent theoretical developments on sex and sexuality within poststructuralist thought have, as yet, failed to influence the dominant understanding of heterosexual relations. Arguably in the field of law and sexuality, feminism has remained wedded to a notion of binary sex and identity politics. The paper then works through two specific instances, namely rape and S/M sexual practice, to identify some of the problems associated with the latter approach. Ultimately it raises questions about whether a poststructuralist politics imbued with feminist ethics might provide us with less essentialist models of masculine/male and feminine/female sexuality without either abandoning feminist political action or falling into a new sexual conservatism.
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Jackson, Sue. "Young feminists, feminism and digital media." Feminism & Psychology 28, no. 1 (February 2018): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353517716952.
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Over recent years, young feminist activism has assumed prominence in mainstream media where news headlines herald the efforts of schoolgirls in fighting sexism, sexual violence and inequity. Less visible in the public eye, girls’ activism plays out in social media where they can speak out about gender-based injustices experienced and witnessed. Yet we know relatively little about this significant social moment wherein an increasing visibility of young feminism cohabits a stubbornly persistent postfeminist culture. Acknowledging the hiatus, this paper draws on a qualitative project with teenage feminists to explore how girls are using and producing digital feminist media, what it means for them to do so and how their online practice connects with their offline feminism. Using a feminist poststructuralist approach, analyses identified three key constructions of digital media as a tool for feminist practice: online feminism as precarious and as knowledge sharing; and feminism as “doing something” on/offline. Discussing these findings, I argue that there is marked continuity between girls’ practices in “safe” digital spaces and feminisms practised in other historical and geographical locations. But crucially, and perhaps distinctly, digital media are a key tool to connect girls with feminism and with other feminists in local and global contexts.
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Brannan, Danielle. "‘Feminazis’: A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis into the mainstream media’s representations of feminist activism." Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review 2, no. 2 (2019): 85–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.85.
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Using a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis (FPDA) this research examines discourses surrounding feminist activists within mainstream Western online media articles. The mainstream media can be accused of portraying feminism and its goals negatively (Scharff 2009), often leading to negative consequences regarding identification with the feminist movement (Callaghan et al., 1999). To examine these discourses within mainstream media, 50 articles relating to the Women’s March on Washington were sampled from US and UK online newspaper sites. The findings of this research suggest that although there are both positive and negative discourses surrounding feminist activism within mainstream media, a large proportion were negative, including discourses of ‘feminism is fractured’, ‘hashtag activism’ and ‘What about the men?’ Discussions around intersectionality (including race), social media and men within feminism were seen within these overarching discourses and throughout the research the possible implications of these negative discourses surrounding feminist activists is discussed.
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Clarke, Melissa. "Merleau-Ponty’s Dialogical Subject and Poststructuralist Feminism." International Studies in Philosophy 36, no. 4 (2004): 15–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil2004364117.
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Schaefer, Donovan O. "Embodied Disbelief: Poststructural Feminist Atheism." Hypatia 29, no. 2 (2014): 371–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12039.
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“I quite rightly pass for an atheist,” Jacques Derrida announces in Circumfession. Grace Jantzen's suggestion that the poststructuralist critique of modernity can also be trained on atheism helps us make sense of this playfully cryptic statement: although Derrida sympathizes with the “idea” of atheism, he is wary of the modern brand of atheism, with its insistence on rationally arranging—straightening out—religion. In this paper, I will argue that poststructural feminism, with its focus on embodied epistemology, offers a way to re‐explain Derrida's “I rightly pass,” and also to carry it forward. Poststructural feminist atheism leads us through Derrida to an embodied disbelief drawing on three dimensions of poststructural feminism: feminist epistemology and material feminism, relationality, and affect theory.
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Patarroyo-Fonseca, Monica. "Feminism in a Female Teacher’s Discourse in an EFL Classroom." HOW 28, no. 2 (July 17, 2021): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19183/how.28.2.619.
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This research article on feminism gives an account of the interaction between a female teacher and her students at a public university in Tunja, Colombia. The study aims to evidence features of feminism within an English as a foreign language classroom by analyzing the transcriptions of the teacher’s discourse using the Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. As a result of the study, it can be stated that feminism is not determined by gender, but rather, it is an individual choice that is socially constructed and transmitted through power relationships. Findings suggest that being female or male does not guarantee having a definite position towards feminism; instead, it is mostly demarcated by the specific situations and circumstances that each individual experiences within a society.
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Abulí Federico, Ivettte. "Beyond witches, mothers or wives." Compàs d'amalgama, no. 5 (April 28, 2022): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/compas.2022.5.39515.27-33.
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This paper examines how Manga can be used to counter mainstream historical narratives, taking Fumiyo Kōno’s In This Corner of the World as an example. The first half of the article addresses the connection between feminist historiography and power in a poststructuralist framework. Then, the focus turns towards the Manga to highlight some parallelisms between Kōno’s narrative and feminist history writing. Two main questions are examined: how she depicts womanhood, as well as the political connotations of setting the plot in Hiroshima during World War II.
Keywords: feminism, historiography, Manga, womanhood, memory.
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Winnubst, Shannon. "Exceeding Hegel and Lacan: Different Fields of Pleasure within Foucault and Irigaray." Hypatia 14, no. 1 (1999): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1999.tb01037.x.
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Anglo-American embodiments of poststructuralist and French feminism often align themselves with the texts of either Michel Foucault or Luce Irigaray. lnterrogating this alleged distance between Foucault and Irigaray, I show how it reinscrihes the phallic field of concepts and categories within feminist discourses. Framing both Foucault and Irigaray as exceeding]acques Lacan's metamorphosis of G.W.F. Hegel's Concept, I suggest that engaging their styles might yield richer tools for articulating the differences within our different lives.
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Foster, Emma. "Ecofeminism revisited: critical insights on contemporary environmental governance." Feminist Theory 22, no. 2 (February 7, 2021): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700120988639.
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Echoing other articles in this special issue, this article re-evaluates a collection of feminist works that fell out of fashion as a consequence of academic feminism embracing poststructuralist and postmodernist trends. In line with fellow contributors, the article critically reflects upon the unsympathetic reading of feminisms considered to be essentialising and universalistic, in order to re-evaluate, in my case, ecofeminism. As an introduction, I reflect on my own perhaps unfair rejection of ecofeminism as a doctoral researcher and early career academic who, in critiquing 1990s international environmental governance, sought to problematise the essentialist premise on which it appeared to be based. The article thereafter challenges this well-rehearsed critique by carefully revisiting a sample of ecofeminist work produced between the late 1970s and the early 1990s. In an effort to avoid wholesale abandonment of the wealth of feminist theory often labelled as second wave, or the rendering of feminisms of the past as redundant as feminist theory changes over time, this article re-reads the work of ecofeminists, such as Starhawk, Susan Griffin and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate their contemporary relevance. In so doing, the article argues that a contemporary re-reading of ecofeminism offers insights allowing for a radical rethinking of contemporary environmental governance.
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Zalewski, Marysia. "Gender Ghosts in McGarry and O'Leary and Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland." Political Studies 53, no. 1 (March 2005): 201–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00524.x.
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This article focuses on how ideas about gender function in academic analyses of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Part of the reason for doing this is to explore the paradox afflicting contemporary feminism, namely that in the midst of apparent success feminism still seems largely irrelevant to matters of political significance. A second reason involves a demonstration of the political value of poststructural feminism. To achieve these aims, I first consider the use and political aims of poststructuralist analyses, partly through an analysis of the use of poetry in social scientific analyses. The main site used to demonstrate the functions of gender and the political possibilities of poststructural feminism is John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary's book Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images. The sub-title of this book refers to a Robert Graves' poem, ‘In Broken Images’, a poem the authors use to explain their desire to ‘break images’ when explaining the conflict in Northern Ireland. I next reflect on and illustrate how ideas about gender function by focusing primarily on Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images. The final section re-considers the paradox of contemporary feminism, suggesting that feminism's own methodologies contribute towards its persistent marginalisation.
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Coombes, Leigh, and Mandy Morgan. "Narrative form and the morality of psychology's gendering stories." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 2 (December 31, 2004): 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.2.07coo.
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In this article we read particular fragments of poststructuralist theory to constitute a narrative epistemological position that enables us to question the morality of psychology's narratives of gendered subjectivities. Drawing on the work of Lyotard (1984) and White (1987) we theorise narrative form as complicit with moral order and the morality of subject positioning. We then question the positioning of a particular woman through a narrative telling of her psychology. The specific narrative is the judge's summation in a murder trial where the case is defended through a plea of insanity. The accused woman's psychology is told through reference to trial evidence: the expert testimony of psychologists and psychiatrists. We read fragments from the judge's summation and from expert testimony to exemplify the moral order of the positioning they enable and constrain. Finally, we discuss the implications of our reading for interventions into the social power relations of legitimate psychological knowledges. (Feminism, Poststructuralism, Narrative, Morality, Insanity, Mental Disorder)
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Artal, Montserrat. "Construir el género. El cuestionamiento del sexismo y del androcentrismo en el sistema educativo." Acciones e Investigaciones Sociales, no. 27 (April 8, 2011): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_ais/ais.200927340.
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El presente estudio es fruto del análisis realizado desde las corrientes de pensamiento educativo en psicología, sociología y filosofía, poniendo el acento en el feminismo de la diferencia, el de la igualdad y el postestructuralista. Así mismo, he pretendido indagar por medio de las técnicas de la entrevista, y el cuestionario dirigido al profesorado y alumnado sobre cómo se construye el género en el ámbito educativo.The present research presents the results of the analysis carried out from the perspective of educational thinking trends in psychology, sociology and philosophy, focusing especially on Difference, Equality and Poststructuralist Feminism. Furthermore, this analysis also aims to focus on the way gender is constructed in the educational field through the use of questionnaires and interviews with lecturers and students.
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Goodfield, Eric. "Postmodern Paper Tiger." Cultural Politics 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233420.
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For most contemporary theorists, the death of postmodern thought as a theoretical impulse and critical divide has become a given. Yet, since the end of the 1990s a variety of important strands of social and political thought—queer theory, feminism, and postcolonialism to name but a few—have taken up and advanced poststructuralist emphases on language and discourse that are derivative of postmodern theory. In this context, the article considers two of the most central and original postmodern thinkers, Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard, to illustrate the political entanglements of postmodern and liberal thought. Through this investigation the article illuminates the way these authors’ works on the political potencies of language raise important questions for the relevancy of poststructuralist political thought for contemporary critical thinking in the context of the global expanse of neoliberal capital. The article initiates an original dialogue between two poststructuralist authors and raises this to a second engagement with current debates over the crises of critical thought and, by extension, carries contemporary relevance as well.
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Scott, Joan W. "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism." Feminist Studies 14, no. 1 (1988): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3177997.
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Nordberg, Marie. ""Kvinnlig maskulinitet" och "manlig femininitet". En möjlighet att överskrida könsdikotomin?" Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 25, no. 1-2 (June 15, 2022): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v25i1-2.4093.
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This artide problematises, from a poststructuralist and queer perspective, the linking of men and masculinity, which is common in the main part of Men's Studies. The genealogy of the concepts is discussed and also how Connell, Kimmel and Hearn, the Second Wave feminism and poststructuralists have used them. Judith Halberstam's concepts of "female masculinity" and "male femininity" are then suggested as a fruitful way to exceed the sex dichotomy. By focusing on how both femininity and masculinity are materialised and used in identity constructions of both men and women, it is argued that a more complex understanding of gender is possible. Halberstam's concept is also linked to Lisa Adkin's discussion of gender flexibility in the late modern labour märket, and to Adkin's argument that new gender hierarchies are hidden behind what is supposed to be more equal gender relations. In the last part of the artide the author exemplifies from a study of men in female occupations how men working as nurses, hairdressers and pre-school teachers position themselves by using masculinity and femininity concepts. These men both integrate and position themselves in contrast to femininity and masculinity concepts. While feminine characteristics are highly prefered, femininity connected with gay men is by the heterosexual matrix made unthinkable. In conclusion it is argued that in the future gender researchers need to problematise heterosexual gender presumptions and study how both women and men perform femininity and masculinity.
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Jordaan, D. J., and W. Mulder. "Maar net nog ’n butch? ’n Feministiese lesing van die Halewijnlied." Literator 16, no. 1 (April 30, 1995): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v16i1.587.
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Just another butch? A feminist reading of the HalewijnliedIn this article the authors argue that a form of covert feminism is present in the Halewijnlied (Song of Halewijn), an important Middle Dutch text. Utilizing the poststructuralist notion of écriture rather than lecture, the latent content of the text is explored, enabling the authors to (re-)construct the ‘meaning' of the text within the context of Kristeva's notion that the Virgin cult constitutes "a triumph of the unconscious in monotheism This "triumph of the unconscious "amounts to a form of female power which is the “underhand double of explicit phallic power" and sets up a temporary "commonality of the sexes" within the patriarchal system. By means of the personage of the Princess, Freudian displacement in terms of social sex roles occurs, negating some of the binary oppositions characterising the man:woman dichotomy. This process results in an 'androgenic’ space in which both sexes are temporarily set free from the sexual roles forced upon them by a patriarchal system.
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Nikoghosyan, Anna. "Co-Optation of Feminism: Gender, Militarism and the UNSC Resolution 1325." Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, no. 1 (December 2017): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52323/fc1-1.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is often referred to as a landmark resolution. Despite its revolutionary potential, I argue that the Resolution was developed through gendered discourses that allowed its use for militarist purposes. Informed by poststructuralist international relations feminist theory, I refer to the Resolution as a discursive practice and claim that the ways in which the UN conceptual apparatus understands and interprets gender and security open up possibilities for states to co-opt the very radical meaning of the Resolution by legitimising and normalising militarist practicing and silencing anti-militarist critique. In order to show this, I examine the gendered discourses behind the creation of the Resolution and address two major ways (including the ongoing militarisation processes in the Republic of Armenia) by which the Resolution is being militarised. (The full text is available in English and in translation into Ukrainian).
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Fong, Grace S. "Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique." Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 9, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 105–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681176.
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Abstract Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 1990s Western feminist literary theory, divided by the different approaches of Anglo-American and French feminist critics and gender studies, examining why specific arguments on women and language, genres studied, and theoretical underpinnings did not hold significant relevance to the study of similar issues when applied to women's writing in pre-twentieth-century China. Yet certain concepts were highly fruitful in critical analysis. Feminist theory was never monolithic, even when it was Eurocentric; theories were drawn from a plurality of different disciplines and schools. Concepts that came into currency—gender, gaze, voice, agency, subjectivity, authorship, and so on—from poststructuralist, postcolonial, cultural, and film studies proved to be useful tools in feminist literary studies. Some came to be deployed in scholarship on women's literature in historical China. In this context, I reflect on theoretical approaches in significant studies of women's writing of late imperial China and consider the impact or critique this subfield of Chinese literary studies posed to Western feminist theories and broader questions of the applicability of modern/postmodern feminist theories to literature of earlier periods and other cultures before the globalization of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Coulson, Victoria. "'stealing Silk is My Delight': Gaëtan Gatian De Clérambault and the Sexual Politics of Poststructuralist Feminism." New Formations 79, no. 79 (September 7, 2013): 26–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/newf.79.02.2013.
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Wheeler-Bell, Quentin. "The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race." Educational Theory 68, no. 1 (February 2018): 104–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/edth.12292.
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CARVALHO (UEM), Fabiana Aparecida de, and Adalberto Ferdnando INOCÊNCIO (UEM). "CORPOS CAMBIANTES EM “A CIDADE DOS PIRATAS”: É POSSÍVEL UMA PEDAGOGIA “LAERTE” PARA ABALAR AS COLONIALIDADES E OS FASCISMOS IMPOSTOS AOS GÊNEROS?" Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11140.
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The present work discusses the animated film “The Pirates City” (2018), directed by Otto Guerra and premiered by the cartoonist Laerte Coutinho, that corporates on-screen questions about her transgender process, the adoption of a transvestite identity for herself, and the critic/deconstruction of present masculinities in her works since the decade of 1980. In a succession of layers disposed of a bricolage of comic books, construction of scripts, interviews, protagonists' dilemmas, and historical contexts of power coloniality, from the individual, from nature, from gender, and from knowledge in Brazil, the animated film is a producing artifact of a cultural pedagogy to teach ways of being and thinking the “worldcystem” capitalistic – colonial – patriarchal, especially with the late scenery of a fascist neoconservative escalation at political and social territories of the country. Anchored in poststructuralist theorizations and in descolonial and (trans)feminist pluriepistemic benchmark, we have analyzed the animated film, highlighting as a “pirate pedagogy” can shake the normative codes of production of knowledge, speeches and practices imposed to bodies, also performing a different genealogy for the sexualities and genders of people from the (de)construction of a “new” physical body, but also epistemological, from Laerte.Keywords: Transvestilities. Sexualities. Feminism. Coloniality.
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Rutkevich, Natalia A. "Neo-feminism: Dogmatism of the New Ethics." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 40 (December 12, 2011): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2021-0-4-121-131.
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Neo-feminism or second-wave feminism emerged in the USA in the late 1960s in the context of the publications of Betty Friedan, Kate Millett and the rise of various socio-political movements for gender equality. Born as political activism with the main demand of exposing and dismantling the “patriarchal structures”, neo-feminism was gradually instilled into US university campuses where it became the mainstay of “gender studies”. That research was also based on the legacy of French Theory, - a broad set of ideas from French poststructuralist and de-constructivist thinkers (Foucault, Derrida, Lacan), revised by American sociologists, notably Judith Butler. An important element of neo-feminism is its “intersectionality”, a theory of the intersection of different types of oppression in society: patriarchy, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and so on. The study and exposure of patriarchy run parallel to the denunciation of “systemic racism” of Western countries, “colonial consciousness”, “white supremacy” and other systems of oppression theorized by the representatives of postmodern cultural researchers and widely spread in the world. In the US, those theories gave rise to the so-called new social ethics or “Woke” –particular sensitivity to minority issues that became the hallmark of all “progressive” movements. “Woke” ideas, however, increasingly give concern to the majority of the academic community, whose representatives emphasize the anti-scientific and ideological nature of most gender and decolonial studies, as well as the intolerance and strident moralism of the “new ethics”. The article offers criticism of neo-feminism as one of the fundamental elements of the “Woke” culture by Western authors (primarily American and French), who can be defined as representatives of classical liberalism, traditional socialism and paleo-conservatism. They see in the “new ethics” the distortion and degeneration of the ideals of women’s emancipation, freedom of speech, pluralism, anti-racism, democracy and classical freedoms – that is, all the major gains of Western civilization.
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Katz, Stephen, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, and Pat Thane. "“To Understand All Life as Fragile, Valuable, and Interdependent”." Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (January 1, 2021): 13–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822578.
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Abstract As old age garners more attention in the time of COVID-19, this roundtable discussion brings together scholars from three different areas within aging studies to define the field’s terms and map out some of its contours and potential future directions. Stephen Katz draws on poststructuralist theory, feminism, and theories of materiality and embodiment in his historically informed work in critical gerontology. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan’s research in global public health and South Asian history brought her to the study of physiological old age as it intersects with social histories in the global South, thus critiquing Eurocentric epistemologies of aging. Pat Thane is a social historian interested in old age in relation to gender, labor, inequality, and welfare states, as well as the long arc of the meaning of old age in the West.
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Borren, Marieke. "Feminism as Revolutionary Practice: From Justice and the Politics of Recognition to Freedom." Hypatia 28, no. 1 (2013): 197–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01260.x.
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In the 1980s extra‐parliamentary social movements and critical theories of race, class, and gender added a new sociocultural understanding of justice—recognition— to the much older socioeconomic one. The best‐known form of the struggle for recognition is the identity politics of disadvantaged groups. I argue that there is still another option to conceptualize their predicament, neglected in recent political philosophy, which understands exclusion not in terms of injustice, more particularly a lack of sociocultural recognition, but in terms of a lack of freedom. I draw my inspiration from Hannah Arendt's model of political action. Arendt diagnoses exclusion not solely as a mode of injustice, but as a lack of participation and public freedom. Consequently, she advocates a struggle for participation, political equality, and freedom as a strategy for emancipation or empowerment. Arendt could help feminists see that collective empowerment is made possible not by a shared identity (the target of poststructuralist critics) but by common action in the service of a particular worldly issue or common end. In other words, feminists would do well to appreciate the revolutionary quality and heritage of the feminist movement better, that is, its character as a set of practices of freedom.
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Gonzalez-Barrientos, Marcela, and Stefania Napolitano. "Beyond Phallic Domain: Female Otherness as a Resource for Liberation: Some Notes From Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Poststructuralist Feminism." Psychoanalytic Review 102, no. 3 (June 2015): 365–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.2015.102.3.365.
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Gavey, Nicola. "Feminist Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis: Contributions to Feminist Psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 13, no. 4 (December 1989): 459–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1989.tb01014.x.
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In this article I suggest that feminist poststructuralism (Weedon, 1987) is of great potential value to feminist psychologists seeking more satisfactory ways of theorizing gender and subjectivity. Some key elements of this theoretical perspective are discussed, including an understanding of knowledge as socially produced and inherently unstable, an emphasis on the importance of language and discourse, and a decentering of the subject. Discourse analysis is discussed as one way of working that is consistent with feminist poststructuralist theory. To illustrate this approach, an example is presented from my work on the sexual coercion of women within heterosexual relationships.
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Stavro, Elaine. "Rethinking Identity and Coalitional Politics, Insights from Simone de Beauvoir." Canadian Journal of Political Science 40, no. 2 (June 2007): 439–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423907070072.
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Abstract. Identity politics have been much maligned by the Left as politically divisive and philosophically untenable. But the need for identification in the process of countering demeaned identities and fostering counter-hegemonic projects has been underestimated by poststructuralist critics. Good at dismantling identities and deconstructing existing strategies of inclusion, the poststructuralists are not particularly helpful in thinking through forms of subjectivity and/or collective action that would contribute to coalition building. Beauvoir provides a worthy model for coalitional politics. Her theory of relational subjectivity avoids essentialism and fosters collaboration, if that work is premised upon connected existences, rather than identity. Her theory of alterity, or Othering, acknowledges power differentials and accommodates both cultural and economic forces of oppression, moving away from static, centralized and binary relations of power that have become associated with second-wave feminism and conventional Marxism.Résumé. La politique identitaire a été largement décriée par la gauche qui l'accuse de créer des dissensions et d'être philosophiquement insoutenable. Pourtant, le besoin d'identification dans le processus de soutien des identités dévaluées et de promotion de projets anti-hégémoniques a été sous-estimé par la critique post-structuraliste. Doués pour la déconstruction des identités et le démantèlement des stratégies d'inclusion, les post-structuralistes ont moins de talent pour concevoir des formes de subjectivité ou d'action collective qui contribueraient à la construction de coalitions. Simone de Beauvoir fournit un modèle précieux de politique de coalition. Sa théorie de la subjectivité relationnelle évite l'essentialisme et encourage la collaboration, si cet effort est basé sur des existences liées les unes aux autres plutôt que sur l'identité. Sa théorie de l'altérité reconnaît les différentiels de pouvoir et tient compte des forces oppressives, à la fois culturelles et économiques, abandonnant ainsi les rapports de pouvoir statiques, centralisés et binaires qui ont été associés avec le féminisme “ deuxième vague ” et le marxisme conventionnel.
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Muller, Vivienne. "‘I Have My Own History’: Queensland Women Writers from 1939 to the Present." Queensland Review 8, no. 2 (November 2001): 69–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132181660000684x.
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It has become a commonplace to note that women writers in Australia have historically produced their work in a literary and social context that has largely been regarded as a male domain. Second wave feminism in the wake of the counter-cultural movements of the sixties and seventies, together with the developments in poststructuralist theories have contested this privileged intellectual space and triggered new ways of looking at literary history, the relations between production and consumption, and the significance of gender, race and class in literary analysis (Ferrier 1992:1). This chapter deals with a number of texts written by Queensland women in the latter part of the twentieth century, and thus is concerned principally with the many ‘configurations of female subjectivity’ (Ferrier 1998:210) and self-definition that Elaine Showalter saw as belonging to the third phase of women's writing. However as this is a chapter about women writers writing in and about Queensland, it will also be interested in narrative representations of women's experiences of the local place and culture, in which gendered relationships are always implicated.
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HAMZA REGUIG MOURO, Wassila. "From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 4, no. 4 (October 15, 2020): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no4.13.
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Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.
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Henderson-Espinoza, Robyn. "Decolonial Erotics: Power Bottoms, Topping from Bottom Space, and the Emergence of a Queer Sexual Theology." Feminist Theology 26, no. 3 (April 20, 2018): 286–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735018756255.
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Indecent Theology has provided both Feminist Theology and Liberation Theology with new contours for rethinking bodies, power, dominance, and submission. With regard to the logic of dominance that radically pushes the margins of the margins into a form of inexistent living, I suggest a material turn to rethink the contours that are evoked with Indecent Theology. Materialism has long stood as a philosophy opposing the overwhelming dominance of language and the poststructuralist emphasis that has emerged as the ‘linguistic turn’. Considering ‘new materialism’ as a theoretical platform to reread Indecent Theology provides theologies and ethics an opportunity to re-imagine indecent methodologies through indecency, a sort of ethical perversion. I suggest an indecent turn in mobilizing materialism and kink as theories to reread indecent theology for a productive queer materialist sexual theology. The feminist liberation theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid pushes both feminism and liberation into new contours of power and submission and initiates new contours of queer sexuality into the discourse. When analysing Althaus-Reid’s work, we are brought to attention to the margins of the margins, an awareness of the struggle for power and control by those deemed less than. There are contours of power at and in the margins of the margins, those who occupy ‘bottom space’. From a kink/BDSM orientation, I propose to reread Alrhaus-Read’s feminist liberation theology as decolonial erotics that helps to generate a productive materialist queer sexuality. The overarching methodology of this article is a quasi-auto ethnographic investigation into the ways in which the contours of race, class, gender, sex, sexuality, and ability affect power and submission and in turn reframes both queer theology and queer sexuality that is rooted in the living out of a very particular theology and ethics, which is rooted in queer relating. Theology can neither materialize in a vacuum nor in isolation. An indecent turn to(wards) a queer sexual theology that is rooted in a queer relationality demands attention to the interdependence of queer relating that is materialized through the interdependency of the growing queer desires of bodies, power, dominance, and submission.
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Murphey, Kathleen A. "Isaac Gottesman . The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race. New York: Routledge, 2016. 192 pp." History of Education Quarterly 57, no. 2 (April 28, 2017): 288–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2017.7.
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Kaplan, C., and I. Grewal. "Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides." positions: east asia cultures critique 2, no. 2 (September 1, 1994): 430–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-430.
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Burzyńska, Anna. "Poststrukturalizm, dekonstrukcja, feminizm, gender, dyskursy mniejszości i co dalej?" Przestrzenie Teorii, no. 1 (February 15, 2007): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pt.2002.1.4.
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The article is a brief summary of the last critical phase in literary studies. It considers some most important meanings of prefix "post-" according to opinions of its inventor, the French philosopher Jean-Franęois Lyotard. Deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender studies, discourses of the minorities etc. - all these have a "postic" character, because they transform the petrified traditions into new forms, revealing their unnoticed possibilities, and stressing their critical resources. The author introduces to poststructuralism, one of the most important trends of the European and American postmodern thought (the critique of epistemological foundationalism), for which deconstruction built a philosophical background. The author stresses metatheoretical dimension of the poststructuralist thought.
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Wendt, Sarah, and Jane Boylan. "Feminist social work research engaging with poststructural ideas." International Social Work 51, no. 5 (September 2008): 599–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872808093339.
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English This article draws on two empirical studies, one with women who had experienced domestic violence and the other with children and young people in public care. It presents reflections by two feminist social workers on how poststructuralism influenced their research practices in social work. French Cet article fait appel à deux études empiriques; la première auprès de femmes victimes de violence conjugale et la seconde auprès d'enfants et d'adolescents pris en charge par les services sociaux. Il présente les réflexions de deux travailleuses sociales féministes sur la façon dont le poststructuralisme a influencé leurs recherches en travail social. Spanish Este artículo llama la atención sobre dos estudios empíricos, uno con mujeres que tuvieron experiencias de violencia doméstica y el otro con niños y gente joven con cuidados públicos. Presenta reflexiones de dos trabajadoras sociales feministas, sobre cómo el post-estructuralismo ha influenciado sus prácticas de investigación en trabajo social.
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Koosed, Jennifer L. "Reading the Bible as a Feminist." Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 2, no. 2 (May 4, 2017): 1–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24057657-12340008.
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This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of the Bible with attention to both early readings and the beginnings of feminist biblical scholarship in the academy. Feminist biblical scholarship is not a single methodology, but rather an approach that can shape any reading method. As a discipline, it began with literary-critical readings (especially of the Hebrew Bible) but soon also broached questions of women’s history (especially in the New Testament and Christian origins). Since these first forays, feminist interpretation has influenced almost every type of biblical scholarship. The third section of this essay, then, looks at gender archaeology, feminist poststructuralism and postcolonial readings, and newer approaches informed by gender and queer theory. Finally, it ends by examining feminist readings of Eve.
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CULLIS, A. "Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory." Journal of Design History 2, no. 4 (January 1, 1989): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/2.4.313.
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Berg, Maggie. "Luce Irigaray's "Contradictions": Poststructuralism and Feminism." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17, no. 1 (October 1991): 50–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494713.
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Moi, Toril. "What Can Literature Do? Simone de Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 1 (January 2009): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.189.
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The past twenty years have seen a beauvoir revival in feminist theory. Feminist philosophers, political scientists, and historians of ideas have all made powerful contributions to our understanding of her philosophy, above all The Second Sex. Literary studies have lagged somewhat behind. Given that Beauvoir always defined herself as a writer rather than as a philosopher (Moi, Simone de Beauvoir 52–57), this is an unexpected state of affairs. Ursula Tidd's explanation is that Beauvoir's existentialism is theoretically incompatible with the poststructuralist trends that have dominated feminist criticism:Viewed as unsympathetic to “écriture féminine” and to feminist differentialist critiques of language, Beauvoir's broadly realist and “committed” approach to literature has been deemed less technically challenging than experimental women's writing exploring the feminine, read through the lens of feminist psychoanalytic theory.(“État Présent” 205)
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Phelan, Peggy. "Feminist Theory, Poststructuralism, and Performance." TDR (1988-) 32, no. 1 (1988): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1145873.
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Petrushikhina, Svetlana V. "THE QUESTION OF FEMALE BODY IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY." Articult, no. 2 (2021): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2021-2-91-96.
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This article is devoted to the phenomenon of female body in the foreign theory of architecture in the 1980‑s–90‑s. The works of D. Agrest, E. Grosz, D. Bloomer and D. Fausch are examined in the present paper. There are two perspectives on the problem of female corporeality: poststructuralist and phenomenological. Jennifer Bloomer and Diane Agrest adopt a poststructuralist critical strategy in which the notion of the feminine is considered as the “Other” of the logocentric architectural discourse. Elisabeth Gross notes that women have always been displaced from the realm of architecture. This is indicated not only by the absence of female architects, but also by the fact that the inherent attributes of female corporeality have been completely disregarded. Diane Agrest suggests that these attributes were appropriated by male architects. The phenomenological perspective on the female corporeality is reflected in Deborah Fausch's concept of “feminist architecture”. “Feminist architecture” brings back the value of concrete, sensual bodily experience in the perception of architecture. The subject's perceptual experience through the body allows the semantic dimension to unfold in the building.
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Gavey, Nicola. "Feminist Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis Revisited." Psychology of Women Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 2011): 183–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684310395916.
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Lurie, Susan, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Tania Modleski, Hortense Spillers, and Carla Kaplan. "Roundtable: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique." Feminist Studies 27, no. 3 (2001): 679. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3178814.
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Davies, Bronwyn, Jenny Browne, Susanne Gannon, Lekkie Hopkins, Helen McCann, and Monne Wihlborg. "Constituting the Feminist Subject in Poststructuralist Discourse." Feminism & Psychology 16, no. 1 (February 2006): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959-353506060825.
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