PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Beforu (Album)
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - feeding egos and tending wounds . An extremely varied group of people playing roles within the gender system, using various strategies to survive socially. In many cases, there is no politically neutral way to determine how to apply the label. And we can imagine a world in which it operated completely differently or not at all. The concept woman is used to control and coerce people to act in certain ways and using the category reinforces that set of rules. Butler thinks that feminists should be extremely cautious about fighting for women, but allows that it may be okay to provisionally or tactically use it Though it may be even better to challenge and undermine it. A key feminist belief is that sexism harms or wrongs women But (as we have seen) many claim that this harm can be hidden or ambiguous in various ways So that women may be complicit in their own oppression.
