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dc.contributor.advisor | Allen, Barry | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Tremain, Lynn Shelley | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:53:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:53:23Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-08-25 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1991 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/6031 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 7063 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2192505 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11031 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Struggles to carve out places in the academy for feminist studies have been long and hard-fought. Now, it seems, those places have been secured. However, just when academic feminist studies seem to be coming into their own, some feminists perceive a widening schism between feminist theories and feminist practices. These feminists maintain that much of what preoccupies academic feminists is remote from any feminist political practices beyond that sphere.</p> <p>Academic feminists, I believe, must take these criticisms seriously. Therefore, in this thesis, I suggest a way of bridging that divergence. Measuring the merit of theories on the basis of their usefulness to feminist practices, I assert, would repair the disconnection between feminist theories and practices. Reconstructing feminist theoretical practices in that way assumes a pragmatic view of truth. Appropriating pragmatism, I argue, would allow feminists to acknowledge valuable lessons realized in feminist political practices while remaining on the cutting edge in the academy.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | Reconstructing Feminist Theoretical Practices | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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