From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)

Beauvoir, Simone de

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“…What is striking about many of these debates is that despite sustained feminist critiques from a variety of different perspectives (see, for example, de Beauvoir 1952;Honig 1992;Lister 1995Lister 1997aLister 1997bPateman 1989;Phillips 1991;Young 1990;Yuval-Davis 1997), dominant conceptualisations of citizenship still rest largely on an abstract, universal and western-centric notion of the individual and are consequently unable to recognize either the political relevance of gender or of non-western perspectives and experiences. They reduce questions of citizenship to either political citizenship (in terms of an instrumental notion of political participation) or social citizenship (in terms of an instrumental notion of economic independence) (Prokhovnik 1998).…”

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New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa

McEwan¹

2005

Political Geography

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New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa

McEwan¹

2005

Political Geography

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“…Feminist criticism is considered as a political act with the aim to challenge and criticize the patriarchal mindset established in culture and literature [3]. In [2] believes that men have the authority to determine and construct the meaning of being male and female. In a patriarchal society, women become the other, whose existence is defined by men.…”

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“…Nawang Wulan, by her own free will by no means escapes from the reduction to the reproductive and domestic function. Her finding the true self and her own free represent the awareness of women to see themselves as what [2] refers to as autonomous subject, who must reject the cultural construct that men have absolute control as the subject and women are the other that must be tamed and controlled.…”

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Female Liberation in Javanese Legend “Jaka Tarub”

Fariha¹,

Choiron²

2017

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“…De Beauvoir (1952) in her The Second Sex, said "One is not born, but becomes a woman." Feminists in the 1960s and -70s insisted that gender and sex are not the same.…”

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The Relevance of Causal Social Construction

Marques

2017

Journal of Social Ontology

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Social constructionist claims are surprising and interesting when they entail that presumably natural kinds are in fact socially constructed. The claims are interesting because of their theoretical and political importance. Authors like Díaz-León argue that constitutive social construction is more relevant for achieving social justice than causal social construction. This paper challenges this claim. Assuming there are socially salient groups that are discriminated against, the paper presents a dilemma: if there were no constitutively constructed social kinds, the causes of the discrimination of existing social groups would have to be addressed, and understanding causal social construction would be relevant to achieve social justice. On the other hand, not all possible constitutively socially constructed kinds are actual social kinds. If an existing social group is constitutively constructed as a social kind K, the fact that it actually exists as a K has social causes. Again, causal social construction is relevant. The paper argues that (i) for any actual social kind X, if X is constitutively socially constructed as K, then it is also causally socially constructed; and (ii) causal social construction is at least as relevant as constitutive social construction for concerns of social justice. For illustration, I draw upon two phenomena that are presumed to contribute towards the discrimination of women: (i) the poor performance effects of stereotype threat, and (ii) the silencing effects of gendered language use.

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From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)

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New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa

New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa

Female Liberation in Javanese Legend “Jaka Tarub”

The Relevance of Causal Social Construction

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