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Феминизмот и прагматизмот
Feminism and Pragmatism

Author(s): Richard Rorty
Contributor(s): Ana Dimiškovska-Trajanoska (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Contemporary Philosophy, Pragmatism
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: feminism; pragmatism;

Summary/Abstract: When two women ascended to the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Catherine MacKinnon asked: "will they use the tools of law as women, for all women?" She continued as follows: I think that the real feminist issue is not whether biological males or biological females hold positions of power, although it is utterly essential that women be there. And I am not saying that viewpoints have genitals. My issue is what our identifications are, what our loyalties are, who our community is, to whom we are accountable. If it seems as if this is not very concrete, I think it is because we have no idea what women as women would have to say. I'm evoking for women a role that we have yet to make, in the name of a voice that, unsilenced, might say something that has never been heard.1

  • Issue Year: 1/2001
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 187-226
  • Page Count: 40
  • Language: English, Macedonian