Natures and Norms  

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Antony, Louise M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 111 no. 1 (Oct. 2000), page 8-36.
Topik: Natures and Norms

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.11 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Most feminists today are suspicious of any appeal to the notion of "human nature" in normative of political theory. This partly reflects the influence of postmodernism among feminist theorists: postmodernists reject foundationalis in general and are specifically critical of theories involving the universalistic category "humanity." But there is another, more prosaic explanation for this concern, and that is the fact that appeals to nature have been used historically, and continue to be used, to rationalize and justify the perpetuation of oppressive gender roles. Sometimes the theme is deterministic: there are things that we women cannot do because of our natures (govern, for example), as well as things that must be tolerated in men because of theirs (cheating on their wives, fighting in wars). At other times the appeal is to a sort of self-interest: given our natures, we will be unhappy, or unfulfilled, or simply "unfeminine" if we purpue certain goals or engage in certain activities. Often these two types of argument are combined, for a sort of lawyerly defense of gender roles: dont't try to do X-in the first place, you can't do it, and in the second place, if you do do it, you'll be sorry.

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