The Gender of Critical Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gender of Critical Theory write by Lois McNay. This book was released on 2022-03-10. The Gender of Critical Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power. However, it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. A distinctive feature of critique is that, in diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it ought to be guided by the experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it tends to pay little heed to these experiences. The Gender of Critical Theory shows how these oversights and tensions stem from the preoccupation with normative foundations that has dominated Frankfurt School theory since Habermas and has given rise to a mode of paradigm-led inquiry that undermines an effective critique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experience has parochializing effects on theory stands in tension with its other tenet that emancipatory critique ought to be primarily concerned with the situation of oppressed groups. To alleviate this tension, this book offers a reconfigured account of context-transcendence as the critical insight afforded not by a monist interpretative paradigm but by reasoning dialogically across experiential and theoretical perspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School critical theory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences of oppressed groups is one of its enabling conditions. Lived experience can reveal dimensions to oppression that are not necessarily visible from the external vantage point of the theorist. The ways in which vulnerable groups respond to their circumstances may also make an invaluable contribution to the development of models of transformative social practice. Combining feminist ideas with inherent but underutilised resources in the Frankfurt School tradition, this book proposes the idea of critique as theorising from experience.
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Sexuality write by Chris Beasley. This book was released on 2005-05-20. Gender and Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About various theories of gender, sexuality, feminism and masculinity including queer theory, transgender theorizing, modernist liberationism and social constructionism.
Gender-Critical Feminism
Gender-Critical Feminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender-Critical Feminism write by Holly Lawford-Smith. This book was released on 2022. Gender-Critical Feminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She introduces gender-critical feminism, explaining what it means to conceive of gender as norms and to be critical of gender on the basis of that understanding.
Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader
Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader write by Michiel van Ingen. This book was released on 2020-05-10. Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of philosophy, especially critical realist philosophy of science, is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony that have resulted from this situation. In particular, it claims that the dialectical logic that runs through critical realist philosophy is ideally suited to advancing feminist and gender studies discussions about broad ontological and epistemological questions and considerations, intersectionality, and methodology, methods, and empirical research. By bringing together four new and eight existing writings this reader provides both a focal point for renewed discussions about the potential and actual contributions of critical realist philosophy to feminism and gender studies and a timely contribution to these discussions.
The Politics of Our Selves
The Politics of Our Selves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Our Selves write by Amy Allen. This book was released on 2008. The Politics of Our Selves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. All too often, these understandings of the self are assumed to be incompatible. Amy Allen, however, argues that the capacity for autonomy is rooted in the very power relations that constitute the self. Her theoretical framework illuminates both aspects of what she calls, following Foucault, the "politics of our selves." It analyzes power in all its depth and complexity, including the complicated phenomenon of subjection, without giving up on the ideal of autonomy. Drawing on original and critical readings of a diverse group of theorists, Allen shows how the self can be both constituted by power and capable of an autonomous self-constitution.
