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Comprehension Obscured: Feminist Ideas and Policy Directives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

Debra J. Liebowitz
Debra J. Liebowitz*
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Drew University
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Transforming conceptual insights about gender into political practice is a critical element of feminist scholarship in the field of political science. This transformational project often entails engagement with activism and advocacy. Examining particular activist modes of translation has been the focus of my own scholarship beginning with my work in the Women and Politics program and at the Center for American Women and Politics while in graduate school at Rutgers. Feminist theorizing, Grosz explains (2010, 96), “enable[s] us to understand the logic at work in culture, social relations, or individual psychology, its points of vulnerability and its capacity for change.” Moreover, feminist theorizing is self-consciously normative; it is about exposing, explaining, and elaborating that which makes possible systems of injustice, with the goal of bringing forth a more gender-just reality.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 493 - 497
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2013 

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