experience, however, emphasises women’s fear of separation as deriving from an ethic of care and nurturance for the ‘other’ . Professor Anne Scales is largely critical of Gilligan’s ‘incorporationism’, which she claims to have ‘usurped women’s language in order to further define the world in the male image’ . She argues that inequalities on the basis of are considered to be simple legal mistake and male hegemony to be irrational in an otherwise rational existence . MacKinnon considers the ‘different voice’ of women to be constructed in response to the patriarchy. Cultural feminists, within feminist commentary, are considered to be ‘moderate’, as cultural feminist theories compliment traditional norms and stereotypical feminine traits and
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This school of thought focuses upon women as a class dominated by another, driven by arguments of women occupying different and inferior or subordinate positions in society . It is the view that feminist jurisprudence cannot exist until patriarchy is abolished . This has necessitated ‘special’ concern and responsiveness , as political and social structures are seen to continue to maintain inequalities and the dominance of male privilege. Radical feminism takes many forms, with Scales claiming it imperative for jurisprudential thought to ‘tap in’ to radical versions of feminism .
Radical feminism gained traction through its contemplation of phallocentric theories and open hostile to the standing patriarchy, challenging the foundations of Western knowledge, culture and inequality in the private and public spheres . Robin West claims existing jurisprudence to be masculine in nature; Catharine MacKinnon theorises that the deconstruction of other streams of feminist thought to consistently uncover a male bias , which MacKinnon denotes enforces the definition of women , differentiating itself from liberal and difference …show more content…
Littleton claims female individuals to be ‘pre-social’, and, therefore, the concept of ‘women’ to be socially constructed . In consideration of this, it is argued that the aspiration of liberal feminist theory is to uncover individuality that has been ‘obscured by incorrect, overgeneralised, irrational ideas of what ‘womanhood’ comprises’. Littleton claims pursuing individualism is not reliant upon assimilation to male norms and produces a theory of ‘gender compliments’, which promote society’s accommodation of difference. This is held within a ‘special rights’ framework.
Radical feminism theory proposes the state to be male and the law to be responsive to society in the way men see and treat women . Catharine’ MacKinnon states,
‘Feminism claims the voice of women’s silence, the sexuality of our eroticised desexualisation, the fullness of ‘lack’, the centrality of our marginality and exclusion, the public nature of privacy, the presence of our absence’
MacKinnon claims there to be no ungendered reality or ungendered perspective ; the male standpoint takes hold of women’s voice. She creates an analogy between Marxist theories within the context of gender and considers the interrelated nature of feminism and gender contrasting this with labours relationship to
This school of thought focuses upon women as a class dominated by another, driven by arguments of women occupying different and inferior or subordinate positions in society . It is the view that feminist jurisprudence cannot exist until patriarchy is abolished . This has necessitated ‘special’ concern and responsiveness , as political and social structures are seen to continue to maintain inequalities and the dominance of male privilege. Radical feminism takes many forms, with Scales claiming it imperative for jurisprudential thought to ‘tap in’ to radical versions of feminism .
Radical feminism gained traction through its contemplation of phallocentric theories and open hostile to the standing patriarchy, challenging the foundations of Western knowledge, culture and inequality in the private and public spheres . Robin West claims existing jurisprudence to be masculine in nature; Catharine MacKinnon theorises that the deconstruction of other streams of feminist thought to consistently uncover a male bias , which MacKinnon denotes enforces the definition of women , differentiating itself from liberal and difference …show more content…
Littleton claims female individuals to be ‘pre-social’, and, therefore, the concept of ‘women’ to be socially constructed . In consideration of this, it is argued that the aspiration of liberal feminist theory is to uncover individuality that has been ‘obscured by incorrect, overgeneralised, irrational ideas of what ‘womanhood’ comprises’. Littleton claims pursuing individualism is not reliant upon assimilation to male norms and produces a theory of ‘gender compliments’, which promote society’s accommodation of difference. This is held within a ‘special rights’ framework.
Radical feminism theory proposes the state to be male and the law to be responsive to society in the way men see and treat women . Catharine’ MacKinnon states,
‘Feminism claims the voice of women’s silence, the sexuality of our eroticised desexualisation, the fullness of ‘lack’, the centrality of our marginality and exclusion, the public nature of privacy, the presence of our absence’
MacKinnon claims there to be no ungendered reality or ungendered perspective ; the male standpoint takes hold of women’s voice. She creates an analogy between Marxist theories within the context of gender and considers the interrelated nature of feminism and gender contrasting this with labours relationship to