Promising Alliances
The Critical Feminist Theory of Nancy Fraser and Seyla Benhabib
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margot Canaday (0009-0005-3296-604X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-69 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400044 |
| OpenAlex | W1979518143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay examines the work of Nancy Fraser and Seyla Benhabib, two philosophers who have demonstrated that feminist theorists can usefully draw upon both postmodernism and the critical theory tradition, with which Fraser and Benhabib are more clearly associated. I argue that each theorist claims the universal ideals and normative judgements of modernism, and the contextualism, particularity, and skepticism of postmodernism. I do this by revisiting each of their positions in the now well-known Feminist Contentions exchange, by examining the diverse ways in which they reconcile universalism and difference, and by exploring each theorist's critique of the Habermasian public sphere
Contextualism · Critical theory · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Normative · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Skepticism · Sociology · Universalism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Fame democracy? Social media and visuality-based transformation of the public sphere
Patterns and scripts
It all comes out in the wash
Otherwise Occupied
“I just wanted to be like everyone else…”
Plural reconstruction
The primacy of narrative agency
Understanding Women's Work through the Confluence of Gender, Race, and Social Class
Critical social theory
Critique, Norm, and Utopia
Feminism/Postmodernism
Emancipation and Illusion
Situating the Self
Emancipation and Illusion
Unruly practices
Justice interruptus
Ideas in Action
Feminist Criticisms of Habermas's Ethics and Politics
Debatable Performances
Sexual Difference and Collective Identities
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |