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Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of 'Women'

Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of 'Women'

Nash, K.

Hardcover

Series: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of Women

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0333721160
ISBN13: 9780333721162
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 29 1997
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, as many contemporary feminists do, we should look at variations in liberalism, and in particular at its democratisation in the nineteenth century, and at how feminists have used liberalism as a resource. Liberalism is analysed using a post-structuralist theory of hegemony: texts of liberal political philosophy are deconstructed to show how the term 'women' is used as an 'undecidable' in the Derridean sense to produce the opposition between feminine private and masculine public spheres; these texts are then linked to liberal-democratic social and political practices, including feminism as a social movement.

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