When Equality Justifies Women's Subjection

Luce Irigaray's Critique of Equality and the Fathers’ Rights Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID12148293
AuthorsSerene J Khader (0000-0001-9502-1952, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume23
Issue4
Pages48-74
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01433.x
OpenAlexW1970972332
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited12

The “fathers’ rights” movement represents policies that undermine women's reproductive autonomy as furthering the cause of gender equality. Khader argues that this movement exploits two general weaknesses of equality claims identified by Luce Irigaray. She shows that Irigaray criticizes equality claims for their appeal to a genderneutral universal subject and for their acceptance of our existing symbolic repertoire. This article examines how the plaintiffs’ rhetoric in two contemporary “fathers’ rights” court cases takes advantage of these weaknesses

Aesthetics · Appeal · Autonomy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Gender equality · Movement (music · Plaintiff · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Subject (documents · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy

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