Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Emily M. Calhoun ◽  
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The State

scholarly journals (Re)assembling the ‘normal’ in neoliberal policy discourses: tracing gender regimes in the age of risk

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Giritli Nygren ◽  
Siv Fahlgren ◽  
Anders Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this article is to explore through a reading of an official Swedish policy document what questions and challenges such a document poses for feminist theory by the way the ‘normal’ is (re)assembled in accordance with what others have called the risk politics of advanced liberalism.  The intensified focus on risk in neoliberalism has seen responsibility move from the state to individuals, and old divisions between society and market as well as between civil society and state are being refigured. The argument put forward here is that current modes of governance tend to neglect the complexities of present-day life courses when using a gender-‘neutral’ approach to social policy that is in fact the work of a gender regime.

Feminist Theory of the State

2009 ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek ◽  
Patrick Dunleavy
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The State

scholarly journals On the Politics of Coalition

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Ruíz ◽  
Kristie Dotson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
The State ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Way

In the wake of continued structural asymmetries between women of color and white feminisms, this essay revisits intersectional tensions in Catharine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State while exploring productive spaces of coalition. To explore such spaces, we reframe Toward a Feminist Theory of the State in terms of its epistemological project and highlight possible synchronicities with liberational features in women-of-color feminisms. This is done, in part, through an analysis of the philosophical role “method” plays in MacKinnon’s argument, and by reframing her critique of juridical neutrality and objectivity as epistemic harms. In the second section, we sketch out a provisional coalitional theory of liberation that builds on MacKinnon’s feminist epistemological insights and aligns them with decolonizing projects in women-of-color feminisms, suggesting new directions and conceptual revisions that are on the way to coalition.

Toward a feminist theory of the state

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 27-5386-27-5386
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The State

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Laura M. Robinson ◽  
Catherine A. MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The State
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