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Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory by Marilyn Frye

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory Marilyn Frye ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780895940995
Page: 176
Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Some, like Catharine MacKinnon, consider violence and sexual harassment a defining element of this system. Jan 30, 2012 - Her-story can teach us a lot about how a colonial past still haunts our nation's imagination and shapes our current political realities. It seems during the time since I was last in a gender studies This can obscure real practices and lived realities. Luckily, my cognitive dissonance worked itself out in the process of making my way through the essays. Oct 17, 2013 - Marilyn Frye (born 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a philosophy professor (retired) and feminist theorist. Apr 16, 2013 - Entitled Transgender: the challenge to feminist politics, it is the sort of bollocks I'd usually let my trans sisters take down, but talking to some of them on Twitter about this, there was an air of fatigue, that… thing so often that I'm used to it by this point– I guess I'd recommend people read Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender and Gayle Rubin's essay “Of Catamites and Kings”, if they want to read cogent, feminist theory-based takedowns of transphobia*. Nov 27, 2013 - While I don't fully understand Barad's philosophy of "agential reality," the concepts presented within based on the interactions between matter suggest that a feminist programming language (well, at least one operating from this perspective) would be especially well-equipped to deal with the sort of .. Jul 7, 2012 - A sharply observed set of essays that covers politics, theory, and the social realities of transsexual women's lives including HIV and prisons. Apr 26, 2014 - Out of necessity, frustration, and the desire for their own voice, women of colour – the politically 'black' – are adding to the Feminist dialogue more publicly and more loudly than ever before. Nov 19, 2013 - I am a theory-lover, an academic (for better or worse), and am intensely interested in anything remotely related to women and feminism, yet I was stifled by some of the new knowledge I encountered. Oct 7, 2011 - (Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory). With regard to PLs in particular, I think a big lacuna so far is the discussion of feminist theory in philosophy, particularly with regard to formal logic and mathematics.