POLI 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Judith Butler, Marxist Feminism, Post Bellum
19 Oct 2016
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Stresses assessments an critique of society by applying knowledge from social science and humanities. Tries to liberate human beings from circumstances that enslave them. Believes capitalist society enslave humans through alienation of the proletariat. Focus on human activity that affects larger social structures. Modern society affected more by culture rather than economics. Social being/identities are constructed along the way and adjusted accordingly. Meaning, ideas, norms and identities change and adjusted. Rationality is a double edged sword used for emancipation and domination. Preventing the disappearance of human freedom in society. Unequal relationship between men and women, they are striving for gender integration through legal change. Not justifying wars but preventing them as it is wrong. Intersectionality of different problems in gender issue makes it difficult to analyze. Jus ad bellum: before war, need to determine that it is a just war (right intentions, necessity, success rate. ) Jus in bello: how to act during war, war regulation through.
