Which views does this person have that you do not agree with?
2007-06-25 11:27:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Bah. There are lots. It's impossible to ever agree with _everything_ a certain theorist says, even if you agree with him/her mostly. And many feminist theorists specialize in completely different areas, from politics to economics to education to history to literature to arts to science.
So mine are probably Nina Baym and Mary Louise Pratt, who mainly do literary theory, and Judith Butler.
2007-06-25 14:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy, the feminist anthropologist. Her books clear up a lot of the muddle on what parts of being "feminine" are biological and which are socialized.
The only thing I dislike is hearing her research on alloparenting (family members who babysit) being used to defend institutional infant care. No animal culture, and very, very few human cultures have ever had a changing array of 5-15 strangers care for their infants, who likely will never see the child again after taking a new job elsewhere. If a baboon's sister plays with a little baby baboon for an hour so the mother can gather some food, this does not translate into human babies being designed to spend 10 hours a day with random strangers at the absurd ratio of 12 toddlers to one adult.
2007-06-25 18:49:02 · answer #2 · answered by Junie 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Two and you're probably not likely to know either unless you're Canadian. The late Doris Anderson, who ran Chatelaine magazine and got Canadian women into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the late June Callwood, because she represented all the average canadian women, was a warrior for the oppressed, the vulnerable , women and HIV patients at a time when nobody wanted to even recognize HIV.
There isn't anything that either of these ladies did that I disagree with , except the black woman on Jesse House's board who called June Callwood a racist, had her head up her tail, Callwood was about as much a racist as I have six toes on one foot and I don't have that.
I can't see any femimist in Canada today who will carry on either of these lady's legacies and I find that incredibly sad. Yahoo either of them and learn.
2007-06-25 18:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by Lizzy-tish 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Worst: Robin Morgan, who suggested killing all men at birth. I can only think of one person here who would agree with that, and we all know who she is, right?"
YES! YES WE DO!
This statement of yours pleases me greatly.
I tend to lean a little away from feminism though, so I'll have to say Sommers or Paglia, since they are critics of the movement yet still feminists.
2007-06-26 20:47:14 · answer #4 · answered by Robinson0120 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Best: Susan Faludi. I have found very few things in her work with which I disagree. She kept it very impersonal, though, only speaking in the first person once.
Worst: Robin Morgan, who suggested killing all men at birth. I can only think of one person here who would agree with that, and we all know who she is, right?
2007-06-25 18:50:52 · answer #5 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Germaine Greer.
2007-06-25 19:25:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
John Goodman
2007-06-25 18:31:49 · answer #7 · answered by JERSEY BOY ♠♥♦♣ 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Dr. Phil
Does he count as a feminist? He knows more about women than I do!
2007-06-25 18:46:47 · answer #8 · answered by Cherry Darling 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
Abraham Lincoln. 1858
2007-06-25 18:39:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hillary Clinton's. She's pretty sharp.
2007-06-25 18:32:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋