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Combined and Uneven Feminism: Intersectional and Post-Constructivist Tendencies
Combined and Uneven Feminism: Intersectional and Post-Constructivist Tendencies

Author(s): Ana-Maria Deliu, Laura T. Ilea
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Social Philosophy, Gender history
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: intersectionalism; materialism; post-constructivism; situated epistemology; combined and uneven development

Summary/Abstract: Our study is meant to be read as an introduction to current networks of ideas and projects within the third-wave feminist theories. The first tendency that we identified is intersectional feminism, animated by the idea that feminism should not only speak to white middle-class women (Hamrouni, Maillé) and posing problems such as: seriality, equity and equality, postcolonialism. It seeks freedom from (intersected) oppressive social forces. The other tendency is an emerging post-constructivist, alternative materialist feminism that focuses on the freedom to act and know authentically as women (Grosz). It aims to render visible the relations between knowledge-production and corporeality (Harding). We would like to further suggest that the concept of combined and uneven development that has already been applied to a world-system analysis of literature (WREC) can also be insightful for understanding the development and co-existence of different feminisms today.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-21
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English