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Response to Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Judith Butler
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Abstract

Bordo argues that the “theoretics of heterogeneity” taken too far prevents us from being able make generalizations or broadly conceptual statements about women. 1 argue that the political efficacy of feminism does not depend on the capacity to speak from the perspective of “women” and that the insistence on the heterogeneity of the category of women does not imply an opposition to abstraction but rather moves abstract thinking in a self-critical and democratizing direction.

Type
Symposium on Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 162 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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References

Bordo, Susan. 1992. Feminist skepticism and the “maleness” of philosophy. In Women and reason, ed. Harvey, Elizabeth and Okruhlik, Kathleen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar
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