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 assorted feminist positions and key modern debates. The publication takes every one debate in flip, outlines the most topics, discusses varied feminist responses and evaluates the consequences for real-life political and social matters. This effortless constitution successfully redraws the map of latest feminist idea, supplying a clean and succinct precis of an intensive variety of fabric and graphically demonstrating the continuing relevance and cost of a feminist viewpoint.
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Such ‘men’ enter society and support individual rights for others because such support is the best guarantee of their own well-being – and that of their offspring. Rationality and reason are seen as the human qualities that allow us to make this calculation; they allow us to appreciate that to look beyond ourselves will allow our own individual prosperity to be achieved. 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.
In addition this strategy is adopted because feminist reflections on and appropriations of these existing works (some old, some new) are important catalysts for the development of new frameworks and ideas. Before detailing the perspectives that are discussed in the book, I should make a few comments about the selection. First, the perspectives that have been selected have been chosen to reflect the diversity, strength and priorities of current feminist debates. The choice is not intended to imply that Marxist/socialist, liberal or radical feminism are not part of contemporary thinking.
32 Feminist social and political theory Feminist incorporations The strategy of feminists working with liberalism and the rights agenda is to develop a format for incorporating recognition of culture and inequality into its template. There are a variety of feminist strategies for rescuing liberalism, and the four key ones outlined in this section are: ● ● ● ● Individual rights Gendered rights Concrete rights Group rights. Individual rights The first strategy focuses on defending the centrality given to impartiality and the abstract individual in rights discourse.