Artikel
Promises, promises: the fictional philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the rights of woman"
Verfasst von:
Moore, Jane
in:
The feminist reader
Basingstoke [u.a.]:
1997
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133 - 147 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Moore, Jane |
| In: | The feminist reader |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Do contemorary theories of language and subjectivity hlep or hinder the feminist reader of past texts? That is, does reading from the inescapable perspective of the twentieth century necessarily impose present-day theoretical presuppositons on to a different past, therby eliminating historical difference? In the light of these questions the essay explores the consequences of using a deconstuctive methodology to analyse Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Vindication...' The essay locates oppositions of genre and, correspondingly, of gender at work in the 'Vindication': the literary is associated with the feminine, while reason and a plain-speaking philosophical prose is aligned with masculinity. Deconstruction, it is argued, enabels the reader to undo these oppositions and to reveal their radical instability... | |
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| Literaturangaben. - First given at the Cardiff Critical theory Seminar, Nov. 1987 | |
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