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A Golden Lever for Politics: Feminist Emotion and Women's Agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Teresa Langle de Paz
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Abstract

Pervasive feminism is a component located in emotionality—feminist emotion—and contains women's primary agency. Because affect and emotions are elusive, an interpretive conceptual tool is necessary and is key to making use of their potential for feminist politics aimed at women's empowerment and well‐being and to build gender equality. This essay builds on contemporary feminist theory and affect theory and draws from multidisciplinary research. It presents a new theoretical framework anchored in hermeneutics and phenomenology to pin down the affective component of women's multifaceted, intersectional emotional experiences of gender. A case study also illustrates how the theoretical premises around the concept of feminist emotion are compatible with and useful for feminist praxis.

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Hypatia , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Winter 2016 , pp. 187 - 203
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Copyright © 2016 by Hypatia, Inc.

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