in:
Women in the American philosophical tradition 1800 - 1930
Bloomington:
2004
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35 - 55 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Deutscher, Penelope |
| In: | Women in the American philosophical tradition 1800 - 1930 |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This paper addresses the appropriation of theories of evolution by nineteenth-century feminists, focusing on the critical response to "Darwin's The Descent of Man" by Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1875) and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (The Sexes, throughout nature, 1875) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's social evolutions, For Gilman, evolutionism was a revolutionary resource for feminism, one of its greatest hompes. Gamble and Blawell revisit darwin's data with the aim of locating, amidst his ostensive conclusions to the contrary, his implicit "defense" of either the equality (Blackwell) or the superiority (Gamble) of women. This article identifies the reasons for, and limitations of, this enthusiam. To some extent, the basis of his feminism is privded by its keen perception of disparities between what a text does, and what it says it is doing. But these feminists did not think through the implications for their won rhetoric about race hsierarchy. Darwin's trope of the "savage" would return in the work of some of these feminists, occasionally displaced or rejected, but usually reiterated, and sometimes integral to the feminism in question | |
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