In a Man's words - the politics of female representation in the public

Forfattere

  • Rebecca Adami Stockholm University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/spf.v6i1.102213

Nøgleord:

female representation, philosophy, Hannah Arendt, political action, feminism, solidarity, privilege

Resumé

What one decides fit for appearance through writing and speech bears a political signifi cance that risk being distorted through both language, reception in the public, and through calls for gendered representations. How can work of female philosophers be interpreted as a concern for the world from that of having to respond to a male-dominated discourse through which speech becomes trapped into what one might represent as ‘other’? In this paper, I explore the public reception of two female thinkers who question, in diff erent ways, the dominant notion of the author or philosopher as a male subject; what kind of limitations does the relative notion of ‘female’ pose political action, and how can privilege constitute a hindrance to feminist solidarity?

Forfatterbiografi

Rebecca Adami, Stockholm University

Senior Lecture,

Department of Education

Stockholm University

Referencer

Adami, Rebecca. “Counter Narratives as Political Contestation: Universality, Particularity and Uniqueness.” The Equal Rights Review 15 (2015): 13–24. ———. “The Critical Potential of Using Counter Narratives in Human Rights Education.” In Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education: Entanglements and Regenerations, edited by Michalinos Zembylas and André Keet. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Bennett, Alan. The Uncommon Reader. Profile Books Ltd, 2008. Dietz, Mary G. “Feminist Receptions of Hannah Arendt.” In Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, 17–50. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Henry Holt, 2005. Hemmings, Clare. “Affective Solidarity: Feminist Reflexivity and Political Transformation.” Feminist Theory 13, no. 2 (2012): 147–61. Honig, Bonnie. Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt. Re-Reading the Canon, 99-2088461-8. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1995. Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. The Latina Feminist Group. Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2001.

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Publiceret

2018-03-27

Citation/Eksport

Adami, R. (2018). In a Man’s words - the politics of female representation in the public. Studier I Pædagogisk Filosofi, 6(1), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.7146/spf.v6i1.102213

Nummer

Årg. 6 Nr. 1 (2017): Gender

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