The feminist critique of liberal individualism as masculinist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6292901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Nash (0000-0001-6445-9628, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-28 |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569319708420748 |
| OpenAlex | W2060623105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines the feminist critique of liberalism as masculinist and its implications for feminism as a political project. It argues that this particular feminist version of liberalism is ahistorical and that it represses the ambiguities and confusions both of liberal texts and of the history of its institutions, thereby making liberalism seem more static and homogeneous than it has actually been. Rather than seeing liberalism as completely exclusionary of women, it will be argued that it is more accurate to see liberalism's use of the term ‘women’ in Derridean terms, as an undecidable that makes the key liberal distinction between public and private possible. From this perspective we can see how feminists have used the terms of liberalism in counter‐hegemonic projects throughout its history and have thereby modified it so that, at least to a limited extent, it is currently able to accommodate women's specificity as women
Classical liberalism · Epistemology · Feminism · Hegemony · Ideology · Individualism · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |