The Personal is Political: Gender, Feminism, and the Politics of Discourse Theory

Isenberg, Nancy

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“…While the concept of conditionality explains the influence of the EU on the Turkish state's efforts to amend its existing laws, feminist discourse theory provides tools to explain the attempts of Turkish feminists to participate in changing public policy on women's rights (Mills 2004;Brenner 1998;Fraser 1997Fraser , 1989Isanberg 1992). Feminist discourse theory calls attention to power relations in society and argues that the notion of dominance within gender regimes cannot be revealed without this focus (Isanberg 1992).…”

Section: Gul Aldikacti Marshallmentioning

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“…Feminist discourse theory calls attention to power relations in society and argues that the notion of dominance within gender regimes cannot be revealed without this focus (Isanberg 1992). More specifically, this theory utilizes Gramsci's concept of hegemony as "the term for the discursive face of power" (Fraser,381).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The public arena is where "discursive struggles" (Fraser,381) to influence political discourse take place. A discursive struggle for securing gender equality would require questioning the ideology of masculinity and femininity that is entrenched in culture and reflected in political discourse (Isanberg 1992). Feminist conceptualization of discourse, therefore, does not treat women as passive victims of male oppression.…”

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This article explores the relationship between various forms of women's political participation in the early republic and Mary Kelley's notion of civil society. Although Kelley is careful to exclude women's involvement in party politics and electoral affairs from her definition, many women, building on precedents established during the American Revolution, continued to participate informally in politics. Initially, the emergence of the first parties, the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans created new opportunities for women's political involvement. By the 1830s, however, a backlash had erupted, making the political realm increasingly inhospitable to women. The expansion of suffrage for white men produced a narrowing of opportunities for women. Nonvoters were marginalized as political leaders increasingly focused on those who could most help them achieve success at the polls: white male electors. Around the same time, however, women began begin to participate in a wide range of social reform activities that were political in nature, if not intent. The article explores why women of the 1830s and 1840s, in contrast to women of the revolutionary generation, refused to acknowledge their connection with party politics and male electoral affairs. It also raises questions about supposed prohibitions on women speaking in public to "mixed" audiences made up men and women and suggests that women's growing literacy and access to print culture prepared some women to agitate for political rights long before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

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The Personal is Political: Gender, Feminism, and the Politics of Discourse Theory

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

Shaping Political Discourse on Women’s Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey

Politics and Civil Society: A Discussion of Mary Kelley's Learning to Stand and Speak

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