Artikel
Feminism, postmodernism, and the politics of representation
Verfasst von:
Lee, Theresa Man Ling
in:
Women & politics
Binghamton:
2001
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35 - 57 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Lee, Theresa Man Ling |
| In: | Women & politics |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| At the core of feminism is the issue of representation. Historically, feminism has always b een a struggle for the proper representation of women. Postmodernism questions this agenda by questioning the very identity of womanhood itself. I argue that to see the challenge postmodernism poses to feminism in terms of its political objective is in fact misguided. the source of the confusion likely lies in the philosophical ground that feminism and postmodernism seemingly share: their respective critiques of the Enlightenment. However, feminism is critical of the Enlightenment to the extent that it has failed to live up to its own principles and values. Unlike postmodernism, feminism as such is not necessarily an anti-Enlightenment project. Against this argument, the works of Jana Sawicki and Bonnie Honig are analyzed for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of postmodernist feminism. Sawicki draws the connection between feminism and postmodernism by way of Michel Foucault while Honig turns to Hannah Arendt. Since neither Foucault nor Arendt is particularly committed to feminism, one needs to question why Sawicki and Honig find Foulcault and Arendt useful. It turns out that in the hands of Sawicki and Honig, postmodernist feminism if fundamentally a rejection of liberal representational politics by way of a non-Marxist route. but the need for such an exit appears to be postmodernist rather than feminist | |
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