Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Sexuality, Gender, Marxism, Feminist Theory and Philosophy, Foucault, Freud, Latin American feminisms and antiglobalization social movements, solidarity economies, theories of socialism

flyer van de encyclopedie 'vrouwelijke filosofen'

by louise muller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1t0cX73-OQ

Door de eeuwen heen hebben talloze vrouwen zich verdiept in een veelheid aan filosofische thema’s, maar vaak zijn deze... more Door de eeuwen heen hebben talloze vrouwen zich verdiept in een veelheid aan filosofische thema’s, maar vaak zijn deze denkers onzichtbaar gebleven. Van de twaalfde eeuwse filosofe Hildegard van Bingen zullen de meesten wel hebben gehoord, maar wat van haar tijdgenote Mechtild van Magdeburg? Uit recentere tijden is Hannah Arendt inmiddels wereldberoemd, maar de namen Gloria Anzaldúa en Suzanne Langer zullen misschien alleen de specialisten bekend in de oren klinken.
Uitgesloten van officiële onderwijsinstellingen namen vele vrouwelijke denkers hun toevlucht tot andere vormen van filosofie bedrijven, zoals briefwisselingen. En dat levert een onschatbare rijkdom aan filosofische bronnen op. In dit nieuwe standaardwerk worden 67 vrouwelijke denkers uit 30 eeuwen bij elkaar gebracht; van de oudheid tot onze eeuw; van islamitische en katholieke mystica’s, een achttiende eeuwse Nederlandse logicus tot een Nigeriaanse politiek filosofe.
Dit boek, waaraan ruim zestig wetenschappers uit binnen- en buitenland een bijdrage leverden, is samengesteld door de filosofes Carolien Ceton, Ineke van der Burg, Annemie Halsema, Veronica Vasterling en Karen Vintges.
‘De titel is gedegen, de inhoud is dat ook.’ – Opzij

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Why Not ‘Feminine Divine’? by Judith Laura

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

It twists my gut like an intestinal bug when people use the term “feminine divine” or “divine feminine” when what is... more It twists my gut like an intestinal bug when people use the term “feminine divine” or “divine feminine” when what is meant is female deity. I keep thinking that like many gut bugs, it might just go away on its own—but no such luck.

Here’s how I see the history, the herstory, of this linguistic corruption. From what I remember, “divine feminine” (or “feminine divine” or “sacred feminine”) came into usage sometime in the 1980s by people, some of them authors, who wanted to refer to a female deity (or female deities, or female aspects of the divine) but didn’t want to use the word Goddess or wanted to talk about the subject in a non-religious, even not specifically spiritual, context.

Sexualidad en parejas con problemas de fertilidad

by Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz

On Being a Gay Male Theologian During the War on Women by Dirk von der Horst

by Feminism and Religion

originally published on the Feminism and Religion project.

or some time, a prominent strand of gay and feminist theory and theology has taken it almost as axiomatic that gay... more or some time, a prominent strand of gay and feminist theory and theology has taken it almost as axiomatic that gay men, lesbians, and straight women have a common stake in dismantling patriarchy.  While I have always understood my own work as a gay theologian in terms of that common struggle, recent developments point to a significant challenge to keeping that bond intact in the larger sphere of political activism.

At the end of last year, National Public Radio deemed 2011 an extraordinary year for gay rights.    Buzzfeed listed 40 reasons why it was the best year for gays ever, beginning with a Gallup poll showing that for the first time a majority of Americans supported same-sex marriage.  The list also included the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and several firsts for openly gay elected officials.  Even the world of professional sports is becoming more accepting: in a recent tweet, Ravens’ linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo equated support for same-sex marriage with playing in a Super Bowl when asked about his life’s greatest accomplishments.

Simultaneously, we saw a steady legislative assault on women’s reproductive freedom. 

Women, War and Peace; Engendering Conflict in Poststructuralist Perspective

by G. Honor Fagan

"Dressed to Kill: The Sex of the Wars in Faulkner and Cather"

by Paula Elyseu Mesquita

in Irene Ramalho Santos and António Ribeiro , eds. *Translocal Modernisms - International Perspectives*, Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture Series, Peter Lang, 2008.

This reading analyzes the use of the war motif in the representation of sociosexual tension in William Faulkner's *The... more This reading analyzes the use of the war motif in the representation of sociosexual tension in William Faulkner's *The Unvanquished* and Willa Cather's *One of Ours.*

Neoliberal Construction of Crisis: Greece as an Example

by Athanasios Marvakis

in German

To understand the Greek-European “crisis” we must get rid of the notion of capitalism as a self-maintaining system, a... more To understand the Greek-European “crisis” we must get rid of the notion of capitalism as a self-maintaining system, a notion that becomes an apotheosis of capitalism despite our personal critical intentions. We must look for “subjective” interventions and interests which contribute or even construct what we perceive as “crisis”. In regard to the particular Greek context it is necessary to recognise various interlocking hinges which mediate between dominant politics and resistances: citizens as “accomplices” or “enemies” of the state; the relationship between a rudimentary and a very unjust social state; the corruption of the Greek population as a strategic deal; and a particular political culture of the Left that is founded on “ideological territorialism” and sectarianism.

Feminist International Relations and the Christian Scholar

by Mary Manjikian

THE AFRICAN GIRL CHILD AND THE WEB OF AFRICAN TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS

by PADMORE AGBEMABIESE

When Will We Nominate the Classroom Teacher for a Nobel Prize?

by PADMORE AGBEMABIESE

Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Spectatorship and Culture

by Patrick Fuery

Theories of desire

by Patrick Fuery

The social dimensions of changing in gender identities across the world

by Mara Maretti

Working paper by Mara Maretti, Lara Fontanella, Francesca Fortuna, Annalina Sarra

In this working paper we consider a cross-cultural research on gender identity transformations. The principal aims of... more In this working paper we consider a cross-cultural research on gender identity transformations. The principal aims of our typological analysis are the delineation of a different perspective on gender definition, out of the gender binary code, and the highlighting of the main features of the emerging multiple gender profiles.


Summary: Introduction p. 1. – Research design p. 2. – The sample composition p. 4. – Multiple gender profiles p. 14. – Masculine vs feminine scale p. 15. – Personal and social information p. 17. – Intimacy p. 22. – Self-representation p. 32. – Gender roles p. 35. – Feelings and personal satisfaction p. 41. – Elements of socialization p. 44. – Open conclusions p. 52. – References p. 54.

Why Radical Conservatism Doesn't Work

by Mark Bound

Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship

by Mary Bryson

Jackie Stacey and Mary Bryson. (2012). Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship. Aporia, 4(1).

http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/journals/aporia/

Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future... more Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future that it wills into being through the overcoming of adversity. This article traces the warped temporalities of cancer survivorship, exploring its queer dimensions by combining theoretical discussions with readings of two lesbian interventions that address normative visions and narrations of healthy/diseased bodies. Cancer survivorship in each case becomes a poetic narration of desire and disease through the queering of temporality. The authors argue that the extent to which cancer's time warp here belongs to queer temporality depends on whether the queerness refers only to the odd, the uncanny, the indeterminate and the undecidable. Or if, instead, cancer's time warp is queer in the sense that sexuality is already present in cancer's disturbance to temporality. In so far as queer carries with it the traces of sexualities deemed undesirable and perverse, then such connections move beyond an analogous and into an ontological register.

La contraddizione assoluta del Capitale.

by Stefano Ulliana

Politics.

Capitalism has made of itself an absolute contradiction. Capitalism has made of itself an absolute contradiction.

Toplumsal Hareketler ve Yeni Alternatif - Radikal Medyalar

by barış çoban

Yeditepe Üniversitesi İletişim Çalışmaları Dergisi 2011, no:14

Speaking In White Cloth: Painting on Writing, Writing on Painting

by Beatriz Arnillas

"De-gendering social justice in the 21st century: An immanent critique of neoliberal capitalism", in European Journal of Social Theory (2012)

by Albena Azmanova

This article presents a blueprint of a feminist agenda for the twenty-first century that is oriented not by the telos... more This article presents a blueprint of a feminist agenda for the twenty-first century that is oriented not by the telos of gender parity, but instead evolves as an ‘immanent critique’ of the key structural dynamics of contemporary capitalism – within a framework of analysis derived from the tenets of Critical Theory of Frankfurt School origin. This activates a form of critique whose double focus on: (1) shared conceptions of justice; and (2) structural sources of injustice, allows criteria of social justice to emerge from the identification of a broad pattern of societal injustice surpassing the discrimination of particular groups. In this light, women’s victimization is but a symptom of structural dynamics negatively affecting also the alleged winners in the classical feminist agenda of critique. The analysis ultimately produces a model of social justice in a formula of socially embedded autonomy that unites work, care, and leisure.

Cosmopolitanism, Custom, and Complexity: Kant`s Cosmopolitan Norms in Action

by Tracey Dowdeswell

Immanuel Kant's Cosmopolitanism has come to stand alongside Political Realism and Liberal Internationalism as one of... more Immanuel Kant's Cosmopolitanism has come to stand alongside Political Realism and Liberal Internationalism as one of three broad theories of ethics in international relations. Yet Cosmopolitanism has been subjected to criticisms that the universal norms identified by Kant - including such norms as hospitality, reciprocity, and publicity (transparency and free political participation) - are Western and Eurocentric in nature, incompatible with cultural pluralism, and lack the justification and legitimacy for the broad-based consensus required for a Cosmopolitan political sphere to emerge among the world’s diverse peoples. This paper seeks to address these criticisms of Cosmopolitanism by studying examples of Cosmopolitan norms in action. These examples have been drawn from diverse regions around the globe to represent self-organized, 'self-legislating', civil societies that have themselves developed the rules that guide their behaviour and the terms of their discourse in the absence of a centralized governing authority. It is hoped that this approach will contribute to this ongoing debate by demonstrating that Cosmopolitan norms can be found in a diverse array of human communities and cultures, that Cosmopolitan norms are not only compatible with pluralism, but are instrumental in its success and vitality, and, finally, that the flourishing of such civil societies shows that the adoption of Cosmopolitan norms are strongly correlated with successful outcomes and well-being.