Michaele L Ferguson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4384626 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michaele L Ferguson |
| NOMBRES | Michaele L |
| APELLIDO | Ferguson |
| FIRMA | FERGUSON M L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7809-229X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Organizing Feminism
This essay argues that contemporary feminist political imagination is constrained by the dominance of the “New York circle” in narratives of late 1960s and early ’70s radical feminism. This focus has marginalized other feminist groups and reinforced a “progress narrative” that dismisses all early radical feminism as irredeemably white, anti-lesbian, and anti-trans. In response, the essay recovers the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU) as a m…
A Picture Held Us Captive
Feminism and the politics of becoming
Justice and the Politics of Identity
In this article I recuperate a structure-oriented account of a politics of becoming from the work of Iris Young, one that rejects identity politics to focus instead on redressing structural injustice. Young offers a theorization of democracy that at once acknowledges our inner multiplicity and our individual capacity to shape our identity, and views equality and inclusion as important political goals that require eliminating structural injustice.…
Dead Dogma and the Limits of Feminist Political Imagination
Commentators frequently describe the #metoo movement as a kind of "consciousness-raising." This language works to position #metoo within a radical, political tradition of feminist activism, yet obscures anti-political, dogmatic undercurrents in contemporary feminism. I analyze contemporary and second wave feminist writings to reveal three, anti-political uses of "consciousness-raising" common to both eras. I recover a fourth usage—revolutionary c…
Iris Marion Young
Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family
Susan Okin’s radical thesis in Justice, Gender, and the Family is that the ideal of the gender-structured family is source of persistent gender inequality in politics, the workplace, and actual families. However, the book has widely been taken to be making a much narrower claim: that theorists of justice should extend their analysis to the family, ensuring that the division of labor in the family is just. As a result of this misreading, feminist …
Where Have All the Activists Gone
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Neoliberal feminism as political ideology
The emerging literature on neoliberal feminism appears to signal the revitalization of the study of feminist ideologies, suspended since the mid-1980s. However, it is argued here that scholars tend to conceptualize neoliberal feminism in a way that inhibits ideological analysis, as exemplified in Nancy Fraser's Fortunes of Feminism. They take classifications of feminist political ideologies from the 1980s as representative of the only true femini…
Vulnerability by Marriage
The central thesis of Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family —that the ideology of the traditional family is the linchpin of contemporary gender inequality in the US—remains significant more than a quarter‐century after the book's publication. On a political register, Okin's insistence on structural analysis of gender inequality is an important corrective to recent mainstream feminist emphasis on individual women's choices. On an academic r…
Beyond Gender Politics? Mainstreaming the Study of Sex Work
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Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics
Choice feminism is motivated by a fear of politics. It arises in response to three common criticisms of feminism: that feminism is too radical, too exclusionary, and too judgmental. In response, choice feminism offers a worldview that does not challenge the status quo, that promises to include all women regardless of their choices, and that abstains from judgment altogether. Moreover, it enables feminists to sidestep the difficulties of making th…
Sharing without Knowing
Sharing without Knowing
Many feminist and democratic theorists share the presumption that politics requires a pregiven subject (“women” or “the people”) whose identity is grounded in commonality. Drawing on Linda Zerilli's interventions in feminist debates, Ferguson develops an alternative account of collective identity that emerges instead from multiple, overlapping, and discontinuous social practices. This reconceptualization of identity demands a corresponding reconc…
Sovereignty, Democracy, Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides. A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida. By Jacques Derrida with Giovanna Borradori. In Giovanni Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen H
Politics in an Untimely Fashion
Politics in an Untimely Fashion Michaele L. Ferguson (bio) Samuel A. Chambers. Untimely Politics. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 224pp. ISBN 0814716415. $45.00. Jeffrey Isaac lamented in 1995 that political theorists had missed an opportunity to respond to the revolutions of 1989. Untimely Politics calls into question the presumption of those like Isaac who believe that the job of political theory is to make sense of significant curre…
Calls for Papers
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W” Stands for Women
Feminist criticisms of the Bush Administration distinguish its feminized security rhetoric, which claims to support women's rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, from its actions at home and abroad, which undermine hard-won gains for women. This distinction between words and deeds obscures, on the one hand, the tremendous progress that feminists have made in framing women's rights as an issue that ought to be taken seriously and, on the other hand, the…
Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics
Choice feminism is motivated by a fear of politics. It arises in response to three common criticisms of feminism: that feminism is too radical, too exclusionary, and too judgmental. In response, choice feminism offers a worldview that does not challenge the status quo, that promises to include all women regardless of their choices, and that abstains from judgment altogether. Moreover, it enables feminists to sidestep the difficulties of making th…
W” Stands for Women
Feminist criticisms of the Bush Administration distinguish its feminized security rhetoric, which claims to support women's rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, from its actions at home and abroad, which undermine hard-won gains for women. This distinction between words and deeds obscures, on the one hand, the tremendous progress that feminists have made in framing women's rights as an issue that ought to be taken seriously and, on the other hand, the…
Neoliberal feminism as political ideology
The emerging literature on neoliberal feminism appears to signal the revitalization of the study of feminist ideologies, suspended since the mid-1980s. However, it is argued here that scholars tend to conceptualize neoliberal feminism in a way that inhibits ideological analysis, as exemplified in Nancy Fraser's Fortunes of Feminism. They take classifications of feminist political ideologies from the 1980s as representative of the only true femini…
Where Have All the Activists Gone
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sharing without Knowing
Many feminist and democratic theorists share the presumption that politics requires a pregiven subject (“women” or “the people”) whose identity is grounded in commonality. Drawing on Linda Zerilli's interventions in feminist debates, Ferguson develops an alternative account of collective identity that emerges instead from multiple, overlapping, and discontinuous social practices. This reconceptualization of identity demands a corresponding reconc…
Vulnerability by Marriage
The central thesis of Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family —that the ideology of the traditional family is the linchpin of contemporary gender inequality in the US—remains significant more than a quarter‐century after the book's publication. On a political register, Okin's insistence on structural analysis of gender inequality is an important corrective to recent mainstream feminist emphasis on individual women's choices. On an academic r…
Beyond Gender Politics? Mainstreaming the Study of Sex Work
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Calls for Papers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Calls for Papers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
W” Stands for Women
Feminist criticisms of the Bush Administration distinguish its feminized security rhetoric, which claims to support women's rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, from its actions at home and abroad, which undermine hard-won gains for women. This distinction between words and deeds obscures, on the one hand, the tremendous progress that feminists have made in framing women's rights as an issue that ought to be taken seriously and, on the other hand, the…
Politics in an Untimely Fashion
Politics in an Untimely Fashion Michaele L. Ferguson (bio) Samuel A. Chambers. Untimely Politics. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 224pp. ISBN 0814716415. $45.00. Jeffrey Isaac lamented in 1995 that political theorists had missed an opportunity to respond to the revolutions of 1989. Untimely Politics calls into question the presumption of those like Isaac who believe that the job of political theory is to make sense of significant curre…
Sharing without Knowing
Sharing without Knowing
Many feminist and democratic theorists share the presumption that politics requires a pregiven subject (“women” or “the people”) whose identity is grounded in commonality. Drawing on Linda Zerilli's interventions in feminist debates, Ferguson develops an alternative account of collective identity that emerges instead from multiple, overlapping, and discontinuous social practices. This reconceptualization of identity demands a corresponding reconc…
Sovereignty, Democracy, Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides. A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida. By Jacques Derrida with Giovanna Borradori. In Giovanni Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen H
Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics
Choice feminism is motivated by a fear of politics. It arises in response to three common criticisms of feminism: that feminism is too radical, too exclusionary, and too judgmental. In response, choice feminism offers a worldview that does not challenge the status quo, that promises to include all women regardless of their choices, and that abstains from judgment altogether. Moreover, it enables feminists to sidestep the difficulties of making th…
Beyond Gender Politics? Mainstreaming the Study of Sex Work
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Vulnerability by Marriage
The central thesis of Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family —that the ideology of the traditional family is the linchpin of contemporary gender inequality in the US—remains significant more than a quarter‐century after the book's publication. On a political register, Okin's insistence on structural analysis of gender inequality is an important corrective to recent mainstream feminist emphasis on individual women's choices. On an academic r…
Neoliberal feminism as political ideology
The emerging literature on neoliberal feminism appears to signal the revitalization of the study of feminist ideologies, suspended since the mid-1980s. However, it is argued here that scholars tend to conceptualize neoliberal feminism in a way that inhibits ideological analysis, as exemplified in Nancy Fraser's Fortunes of Feminism. They take classifications of feminist political ideologies from the 1980s as representative of the only true femini…
Where Have All the Activists Gone
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family
Susan Okin’s radical thesis in Justice, Gender, and the Family is that the ideal of the gender-structured family is source of persistent gender inequality in politics, the workplace, and actual families. However, the book has widely been taken to be making a much narrower claim: that theorists of justice should extend their analysis to the family, ensuring that the division of labor in the family is just. As a result of this misreading, feminist …
Iris Marion Young
Dead Dogma and the Limits of Feminist Political Imagination
Commentators frequently describe the #metoo movement as a kind of "consciousness-raising." This language works to position #metoo within a radical, political tradition of feminist activism, yet obscures anti-political, dogmatic undercurrents in contemporary feminism. I analyze contemporary and second wave feminist writings to reveal three, anti-political uses of "consciousness-raising" common to both eras. I recover a fourth usage—revolutionary c…
Justice and the Politics of Identity
In this article I recuperate a structure-oriented account of a politics of becoming from the work of Iris Young, one that rejects identity politics to focus instead on redressing structural injustice. Young offers a theorization of democracy that at once acknowledges our inner multiplicity and our individual capacity to shape our identity, and views equality and inclusion as important political goals that require eliminating structural injustice.…
A Picture Held Us Captive
Feminism and the politics of becoming
Organizing Feminism
This essay argues that contemporary feminist political imagination is constrained by the dominance of the “New York circle” in narratives of late 1960s and early ’70s radical feminism. This focus has marginalized other feminist groups and reinforced a “progress narrative” that dismisses all early radical feminism as irredeemably white, anti-lesbian, and anti-trans. In response, the essay recovers the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU) as a m…
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