Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

The Embodiment of Ugliness and the Logic of Love

The Danish Redstocking Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID4761981
AuthorsLynn Walter (0000-0003-3453-1304, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA, corresponding author), Lynn M Walter (corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume36
Issue1
Pages103-126
Publication date1990-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.1990.53
OpenAlexW1993140731
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

oppositions themselves, they have a particular immediacy in our time, an immediacy which can be attributed, in dialectical logic, to a reaction against structuralism, politically and intellectually. (Ortner, 1984) The sense that we are presently at the end of something, as expressed in the terms 'postindustrial' and 'postmodern', is a sign of loss of confidence in the structures of the state, the political party, the labour union, and the established ways of doing and thinking. This same loss of confidence is also found in the laws, models, and theories of the social sciences, as expressed in the term 'poststructuralism'. Critiques from the right wing of the political spectrum of all manifestations of state power except those which support capitalism and critiques from the left wing of the state's support of capitalism, all speak of agency, either individual or collective, against structure. The bourgeois critique is essentially coherent. It is, simply stated, that any structure opposed to the orderly accumulation of capital is to be opposed. The left critique of structure is more theoretically problematic. How can one act within the system to oppose it without creating structures which simply negate the structures they oppose, that is, without creating mere antistructures? To escape the endless series of contradictions anti-antistructures one might pose anarchism as a political response or nihilism as an intellectual one. However, to the extent that we still consider ourselves to be social scientists, committed to problem solving, to abandon the project is not a very attractive prospect. Assuming one has not reached the highest state of antistructuralism, one's critique of it must take another form, both intellectually and politically

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Danish · Dialectic · Epistemology · Feminism · Immediacy · Late capitalism · Movement (music) · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Educational Sciences

  • A Fully Formed Blast from Abroad”? Australasian Lesbian Circuits of Mobility and the Transnational Exchange of Ideas in the 1960s and 1970s

    Rebecca Jennings, Liz Millward•Journal of the History of Sexuality•2016

  • Intet nyt under solen? Refleksion over feministisk teori

    Open Access•Bente Rosenbeck•Kvinder Køn & Forskning•1997

  • Bourdieu and Social Movements

    Hanna-Mari Husu•Social movement studies•2012

  • From Reproduction to Transformation

    Open Access•N Crossley•Theory Culture & Society•2003

  • Feminist Anthropology

    Open Access•Lynn Walter•Gender & Society•1995

  • Political Distinction in the British Anti-capitalist Movement

    Open Access•Yousaf Ibrahim•Sociology•2011

  • Patriarchy in a welfare society

    Harriet Holter•Patriarchy in a welfare society•1984

  • Outline of a Theory of Practice

    Open Access•Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice•On Violence•2007

  • The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

    Pat Caplan•Cultural Construction of Sexuality•2013

  • Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale

    Maria Mies, Pnina Werbner et al.•Patriarchy and Accumulation on a…•2014

  • Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties

    Open Access•B Ortner, Sherry B Ortner•Comparative Studies in Society…•1984

Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,23
Citation span1995 - 2016 (22)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae