POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Positive Liberty, Consciousness Raising, Marital Rape
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Critzies the liberal state, modifies marxism, rejects competing feminist theories. Class for marx, gender for mackinnon minus the utopian element. Locke to rawls: like marx, mackinnon criticizes liberalism. Liberals focus on the individual the separation thesis a human being is physically separate from other human beings. rawls on the distinctiveness of persons. The separation thesis and ideas about law and the state. The state always steps in when conflict gets serious (ex. Marxism: natural rights a sham; the liberal state a committee of the ruling lass. Class in-itself and for-itself: act in true interest, women example: when they do things, in terms of promoting themselves, they do it by male expectations, bourgeoisie was a class in-itself because they do it for capitalism. Marxist critique is important, but requires modification, says mackinnon. False feminst voice: js mill (liberal feminism women under male categories) And carole gilligan (cultural feminism women"s ethics of care as the product of male dominance. )
