书名: Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Contemporary Political Theory)
作者: Brooke A. Ackerly (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (July 31, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521659841
ISBN-13: 978-0521659840
Book Description
In Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism, Brooke Ackerly demonstrates the shortcomings of contemporary deliberative democratic theory, relativism and essentialism for guiding the practice of social criticism in the real, imperfect world. Drawing theoretical implications from the activism of Third World feminists who help bring to public audiences the voices of women silenced by coercion, Brooke Ackerly provides a practicable model of social criticism. She argues that feminist critics have managed to achieve in practice what other theorists do only incompletely in theory. Complemented by Third World feminist social criticism, deliberative democratic theory becomes critical theory - actionable, coherent, and self-reflective. While a complement to democratic theory, Third World feminist social criticism also addresses the problem in feminist theory associated with attempts to deal with identity politics. Third World feminist social criticism thus takes feminist theory beyond the critical impasse of the tension between anti-relativist and anti-essentialist feminist theory.
Review
"...remarkable..." -- NWSA Journal
"the book offers rich insights." -- American Historical Review
"The questions raised by this book are of central importance to the world today..." -- Philosophy in Review
"Ackerly's ambitious blending of theory and practical politics will appeal to a broad audience of feminist scholars and students, including political theorists, development studies scholars, comparative politics scholars, and legal theorists interested in international human rights. The book also provides social scientists with a rich example of a methodology that derives theory from emancipatory practices and could thus be an exciting addition to graduate scope and method courses." -- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Holloway Sparks, Pennsylvania State University
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作者: Brooke A. Ackerly (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (July 31, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521659841
ISBN-13: 978-0521659840
Book Description
In Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism, Brooke Ackerly demonstrates the shortcomings of contemporary deliberative democratic theory, relativism and essentialism for guiding the practice of social criticism in the real, imperfect world. Drawing theoretical implications from the activism of Third World feminists who help bring to public audiences the voices of women silenced by coercion, Brooke Ackerly provides a practicable model of social criticism. She argues that feminist critics have managed to achieve in practice what other theorists do only incompletely in theory. Complemented by Third World feminist social criticism, deliberative democratic theory becomes critical theory - actionable, coherent, and self-reflective. While a complement to democratic theory, Third World feminist social criticism also addresses the problem in feminist theory associated with attempts to deal with identity politics. Third World feminist social criticism thus takes feminist theory beyond the critical impasse of the tension between anti-relativist and anti-essentialist feminist theory.
Review
"...remarkable..." -- NWSA Journal
"the book offers rich insights." -- American Historical Review
"The questions raised by this book are of central importance to the world today..." -- Philosophy in Review
"Ackerly's ambitious blending of theory and practical politics will appeal to a broad audience of feminist scholars and students, including political theorists, development studies scholars, comparative politics scholars, and legal theorists interested in international human rights. The book also provides social scientists with a rich example of a methodology that derives theory from emancipatory practices and could thus be an exciting addition to graduate scope and method courses." -- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Holloway Sparks, Pennsylvania State University
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