Durkheim's Response to Feminism

Prescriptions for Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7532532
AutoresJennifer M Lehmann (autor correspondente)
Ano1990
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas163-163
Data de publicação1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/202203
OpenAlexW2335628645
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas17

There is a striking parallel between Durkheim's assessment of feminism and his assessment of socialism.1 For Durkheim feminism, like socialism, is essentially an unconscious movement. Like socialism, feminism is a nonscientific, misguided perception of conditions which are nonetheless both real and problematic. Like socialism, feminism misinterprets actual social problems and therefore suggests radical (i.e., unrealistic and destructive) pseudosolutions. For example, feminism advocates legalized divorce, most drastic and revolutionary solution to women's problems (Durkheim 1906, p. 240).2 Like socialism, feminism is based on a false, ideological understanding of society, one which entails the misrecognition of social structures as both fatally flawed and malleable and the misrecognition of their differential effects on various social

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