Serene Khader
Biographic Data
| ID | 86834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serene Khader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serene |
| FAMILY NAME | Khader |
| SIGNATURE | KHADER S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian
Passive Empowerment
In a world where paid work is touted as a development panacea, empowering women has started to look a lot like burdening them. I argue here that this burdening of women is a predictable result of the conception of empowerment as choice or agency. Dominant conceptions of empowerment characterize empowerment as the increase in a person’s ability to do what they choose. Yet conditions of gender equality and poverty structure women’s options such tha…
The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy
Beyond Autonomy Fetishism
A growing critical literature on women's empowerment argues that the current focus on autonomy obscures the extent to which relationships, social norms, and structures shape women's lives. I begin from the idea that disaggregating forms of autonomy and conceptually clarifying their relationship to empowerment can help us respond to the critiques without abandoning what is genuinely important about autonomy. I argue that one form of personal auton…
Thinking with Irigaray
Beyond Autonomy Fetishism
A growing critical literature on women's empowerment argues that the current focus on autonomy obscures the extent to which relationships, social norms, and structures shape women's lives. I begin from the idea that disaggregating forms of autonomy and conceptually clarifying their relationship to empowerment can help us respond to the critiques without abandoning what is genuinely important about autonomy. I argue that one form of personal auton…
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian
Thinking with Irigaray
Beyond Autonomy Fetishism
A growing critical literature on women's empowerment argues that the current focus on autonomy obscures the extent to which relationships, social norms, and structures shape women's lives. I begin from the idea that disaggregating forms of autonomy and conceptually clarifying their relationship to empowerment can help us respond to the critiques without abandoning what is genuinely important about autonomy. I argue that one form of personal auton…
The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy
Passive Empowerment
In a world where paid work is touted as a development panacea, empowering women has started to look a lot like burdening them. I argue here that this burdening of women is a predictable result of the conception of empowerment as choice or agency. Dominant conceptions of empowerment characterize empowerment as the increase in a person’s ability to do what they choose. Yet conditions of gender equality and poverty structure women’s options such tha…
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Empowerment (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work)