Christian Maturity in Light of Feminist Theory

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
World View ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Christian Maturity ◽  
Faith And Learning ◽  
Feminist Movements

Beginning with a methodological statement regarding the integration of faith and learning, the article proceeds to a brief historical overview of definitions of human maturity, followed by a critical evaluation of ideas of maturity implicit in liberal Marxist, and radical feminist movements. Particular attention is paid to certain aspects of “postradical” or “differentiating” feminisms which are compatible with a biblical world view.

scholarly journals Cuerpo indeterminado: La precariedad del cuerpo en el discurso feminista

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
María Isabel Peña Aguado
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Cuerpo Femenino

<p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">La teoría feminista heredó de una tradición filosófica hostil la identificación de cuerpo y mujer. Partiendo de esta identificación de mujer y cuerpo es comprensible que un cuestionamiento del concepto ‘mujer’  influya asimismo en el lugar que va a encontrar el cuerpo dentro del movimiento y teoría feministas. Ese lugar será diferente dependiendo de las diversas reivindicaciones que marcan las diferencias entre los distintos feminismos y teorías </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>queer</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">. La pregunta que se plantea es hasta qué punto la precariedad del cuerpo femenino dentro de la misma teoría feminista es consecuencia del cuestionamiento del concepto de mujer o si, por el contrario, no será más bien el rechazo a una realidad corporal concreta lo que ha permitido y ayudado a desarmar los conceptos de ‘mujer’ y ‘mujeres’ hasta el punto de considerarlos como innecesario para el mismo discurso y políticas feministas contemporáneos.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">Palabras claves: cuerpo, mujeres, feminismo, Teoría Queer</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><br /><em>Indeterminacy of the body: precariousness of body in the feminist discourse</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">Feminist theory inherited the identification of woman and body from a hostile philosophical tradition. Given this identification, it is understandable that a questioning of the concept ‚woman‘ also influences the place that the body will find in the feminist movements and theories. The question that arises is how far the precariousness of the female body within feminist theory itself is the result of a questioning of the concept of ‘woman’ or whether, on the contrary, it is the rejection of a concrete corporal reality which has enabled and helped to disarm the concepts of ‚woman‘ and ‚women‘ to the point of considering them unnecessary for contemporary feminist discourse and politics.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">Keywords: body, women, feminism, Queer Theory<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"> </p><p lang="de-DE" align="JUSTIFY"> </p>

Women, marginalisation and politics in Africa and Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Amaka Theresa Oriaku Emordi ◽  
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Papia Sengupta ◽  
Hope A. Ikednma ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Gender Imbalance ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Choices

Across the world, women are on the fringes in all facets of life endeavours- economy, education, governance, and politics compared to their male counterparts. Irrespective of the geographical location, women are culturally and socially disadvantaged. They are systematically deprived of individual choices, economic opportunities, political rights, political power as well as intellectual recognition. Women are on the lower incomes ladder compare to their male counterparts. Feminists have argued that women’s fivefold role – mother, wife, home-manager, informal educator, and family nurse is responsible for women’s impediments in life. As a beast of burdens, women have obstructed them from pursuing their aspirations at the same speed as their male counterparts. Consequently, women are marginal in the scheme of mainstream issues of life as politics and economy. Using secondary data and applying the radical feminist theory, women marginalization in Nigeria and India was investigated. The paper revealed some forms of women marginalization in these countries and their similarities to show that women marginalization is a universal phenomenon, cutting across culture, race, and continent. While the concept of marginalization may vary according to the historical and socio-economical context of societies like Nigeria and India, its impact on the marginalized remains the same across cultures, peoples, and continents. To address this gender imbalance and disparity in opportunities between men and women, there is a need for a rotund education for a large majority of women in these continents to accelerate the empowerment of women in every aspect of life.

11. Gender and feminist criminology

Criminology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ugwudike
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Crime ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
Criminological Theories ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

This chapter examines the origins, definitions, and principles of feminist criminology. It begins with a discussion of the main theoretical traditions that underpin feminist criminology, namely liberal feminist theory, radical feminist theory, Marxist feminist theory, and socialist feminist theory. It then considers feminist epistemologies such as feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism, and postmodern feminism, as well as the intersections between gender and other structures of disadvantage. It also evaluates the interrelationships between gender and crime by addressing feminist explanations of female crime and masculinities studies of male crime, along with the role of gender in the criminal justice system. The chapter concludes by analysing feminist criminologists' criticisms of what they describe as the androcentricism of mainstream criminological theories as well as some of the key criticisms against feminist perspectives on gender and crime.

scholarly journals Radical feminism as a discourse in the theory of conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Vukoičić
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
The One

Radical feminism represents one of the types of the feminist theory, foundedon the attitude that the society is based on the patriarchal grounds, becauseof which women are marginalized and discriminated against. Th is theorycan be defi ned as a confl ict theory because it is based on the assumption thata society consists of opposed fractions (sexes) whose relations are based on thedomination of men over women, as well as the one that a society and diff erentrelations within it can be best described by observing these relations and theattitudes of sexes toward them. Since the radical feminist movement had beenfounded on the principles of Marxism, which, as well, represents the mostimportant confl ict theory, the comparative analysis of Marxism and this typeof feminism is the key component of this research, in order to see similaritiesand diff erences between the two theories, and, based on those, defi ne some ofthe main characteristics of the radical feminism as a confl ict theory.

scholarly journals Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Charlène Calderaro ◽  
Éléonore Lépinard
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Feeling Rules ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

Black feminist theory and theorizations by feminists of colour have identified and explored emotions linked to race and racism in feminist movements, especially in the US context. Building on this literature, this article explores the changes in feminist emotional dynamics linked to race which have been brought up by the relatively recent adoption of intersectionality in feminist movements’ discourses in two European countries, France and Switzerland, which are both often described as ‘colour-blind’ contexts. Drawing on Hochschild’s concept of feeling rules, we argue that intersectionality has changed the ways feminists are legitimately expected to feel about race and racism within feminist movements in both contexts. As feeling rules vary according to the members’ positions within the movement, we contend that these changes in emotional dynamics contribute to redefine feminists’ relations and feminist membership along racial lines. Based on interviews with young feminist activists in France and Switzerland during mobilization processes characterized by a prominent use of intersectionality, we observe how intersectionality discourses bring about new feeling rules in relation to race and racism. These feeling rules differ for white and non-white feminists: while intersectionality has led young white feminists to self-education and self-critique, racialized feminists often expressed mixed feelings about intersectionality and its use, in particular by white feminists. Importantly, these changes in feeling rules have allowed racialized feminists to renegotiate their relations with white feminists and their emotional content, as well as their position within the movement.

scholarly journals BEDOUIN WOMEN STATUS UNDER THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM IN MIRAL AL TAHAWI’S THE TENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Zainab Abd Ali Hammood ◽  
Lajiman Bin Janoory
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

This research investigates the status of female characters under the oppressive patriarchal system of Bedouin in the novels of Miral Al Tahawi through the lens of radical feminist theory. Miral Al-Tahawi explains in her novel "The Tent" how women are marginalized and exploited in the context of parental restrictions imposed on them in Bedouin society, which is governed by harsh customs and values. The rationale comes from an understanding of the influence of this patriarchal authority over Bedouin women that reveals the status of women as oppressed and subject to the conditions that control women's identity and limit their freedom. This research will critically analyze the status of women in a gender-focused society. The current study found that Miral al-Tahawi embodied the suffering of Bedouin women through the suffering of the female characters in her novel. She reveals the extent of the suffering and patriarchal oppression that Bedouin women are subjected to in silence.

scholarly journals Journalistic representation of women in the reportage of military operations against Boko Haram in Northeast Nigeriao Haram in Northeast Nigeria

Contratexto ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 155-179
Author(s):  
Ben-Collins E. Ndinojuo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Northeast Nigeria

The role of women in the reportage of military operations against the Boko Haram insurgents and their portrayal in news reports were investigated in this study. Radical Feminist Theory and Feminist Muted Group Theory were used to elucidate the research. Using content analysis, online editions of four Nigerian newspapers―Daily Trust, Premium Times, The Nation, and Vanguard―from January 2014 to December 2016 were investigated to reveal how women were presented in news reports. Findings produced 185 news stories; women were included in 10 % of the total pictures used. Women made up 8 % of the bylines and 4% of the sources, with 59 % of the women mentioned in the news presented as kidnap and rescued victims. The study found an underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in news reports, which were attributed to the male-dominated journalism field that preferred using their male sources to the detriment of issues affecting women.

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