Whose counting?  

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Ahmed, Sara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 1 no. 1 (Apr. 2000), page 97–103.
Topik: counting
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The question ‘what counts as feminist theory?’ is an instructive one: first, it suggests to me that some theories and not others count as feminist; second, it suggests that the demarcation of feminist theory as an entity is not a simple act, but one that involves a set of criteria about ‘what is feminism’ as well as ‘what is theory’ that are always in dispute. That is, the question ‘what counts as feminist theory?’ suggests that somebody is doing the counting. As I arrive at this question, I have to both laugh and grimace: I can almost see a ghostly image of a woman, upstairs in the dusty attics of our institutions, counting out theories, counting out feminisms. . . . I can almost hear her voice, gleeful and joyous, as she throws out some works, names them as impostors, saying that they don’t count, that they can’t be counted. Am I that woman? Have I been her? Are you her? Have you made such judgements with the ease of the one who is counted, of the one who counts? But enough of my fantasies.

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