Comprehension Obscured
Feminist Ideas and Policy Directives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6354727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra J Liebowitz (Drew University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 04 |
| Pages | 493-497 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x13000366 |
| OpenAlex | W1980541558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Transforming conceptual insights about gender into political practice is a critical element of feminist scholarship in the field of political science. This transformational project often entails engagement with activism and advocacy. Examining particular activist modes of translation has been the focus of my own scholarship beginning with my work in the Women and Politics program and at the Center for American Women and Politics while in graduate school at Rutgers. Feminist theorizing, Grosz explains (2010, 96), “enable[s] us to understand the logic at work in culture, social relations, or individual psychology, its points of vulnerability and its capacity for change.” Moreover, feminist theorizing is self-consciously normative; it is about exposing, explaining, and elaborating that which makes possible systems of injustice, with the goal of bringing forth a more gender-just reality
Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Injustice · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Vulnerability (computing · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |