Universal Difference: Feminism And The Liberal Undecidability Of 'women'
by Kate Nash /
1998 / English / PDF
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Against those who see liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, the author argues that the ambivalent relationship between liberalism and feminism has been productive. She discusses variations in liberalism and its use as a resource for feminists. Although the study looks at texts, the aim is to examine liberalism in practice rather than as a set of ideas. Topics include the critique of liberalism as masculinist, ambivalent anti-patriarchalism, the democratization of liberalism, post-war liberal-democracy and the undecidability of women, and feminist decisions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OrThe author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, as many contemporary feminists do, we should look at variations in liberalism, and in particular at its democratisation in the nineteenth century, and at how feminists have used liberalism as a resource.
