After Antigone
Women, the Past, and the Future of Feminist Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine A Holland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1108 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2991851 |
| OpenAlex | W2333314980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 17 |
Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone occupies a privileged position in modern political thought, for it has provided modem thinkers with an opportunity to reflect upon the place of women with respect to both the state and the household. Its heroine, Antigone, occupies a similarly prominent position within contemporary feminist thought, a figure around whom feminists have recast the relation of women to political action by contesting and reconfiguring relations between household and polis posed by the westem theoretical tradition. This essay examines three interpretations of the tragedy by feminist political theorists, each of whom identifies in Antigone's actions a model for a distinct variety of feminist politics, and each of whom, moreover, reads the work as a meditation about how feminists may speak politically from within a tradition that positions women, conceptually, as inimical to the public order. It suggests that these three readings, each in a different way and to a different degree, inadvertently collapse important distinctions between past and present and consequently risk accepting in slightly altered form a variety of problematic premises handed down by a tradition they contest. The essay goes on to reread Antigone in ways that heighten rather than attenuate the distinctions between politics past and present, and it suggests ways of thinking about its heroine's actions that may provide contemporary feminist theorists with new ways of engaging the political and theoretical pasts
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Doing Gender in Babylon
Antik Yunan Edebî Eserlerinde Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri
The Allure of Counterpoint
Antigone re-imagined
Norms and Novelty in the Space of Reasons
Rethinking the Personal and the Political
Rethinking the Personal and the Political
Beyond Heroes and Hostility
Moral agency under oppression
Sociology and the (un)happy endings of ancient Greek tragedy
Victorian Antigone
Gender Space and Collaboration Politics
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
The Prudent Dissident
On the Importance of Penelope
Another Antigone
Tragedy, genealogy and theories of International Relations
Fear of Diversity
Of Woman Born
Playing the Other
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Human Condition
Antigone's Dilemma
Phenomenology of Spirit
American Political Culture, Prophetic Narration, and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Machiavelli's Sisters
I. Citizenship with a Feminist Face
The Fragility of Goodness
Corrupting Youth
The Greeks and the Irrational
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Myth, Religion and Mother-Right
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |