The "Quest for National Purpose" of 1960

Jeffries, John W.

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“…The intuitive idea of authenticity, in the words of Bernard Williams, is "the idea that some things are in some real sense really you, or express what you [are], and others aren't" (Jeffries, 2002). Colloquial definitions include "being true to oneself" or "being who one really is."…”

Section: Social Authenticitymentioning

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Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms

Bell

2024

Hypatia

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Trans and gender-nonconforming people sometimes say that certain gender norms are authentic for them. For example, a trans man might say that abiding by norms of masculinity tracks who he really is. Authenticity is sometimes taken to appeal to an essential, pre-social “inner self.” It is also sometimes understood as a moral notion. Authenticity claims about gender norms therefore appear inimical to two key commitments in feminist philosophy: that all gender norms are socially constructed, and that many domains of gender norms are both morally and prudentially bad. I argue that that this apparent tension is illusory. Concordant with existing trans narratives of authenticity, I articulate an existentialist view that understands authenticity as a socially embedded, constructive project undertaken in a non-ideal social world, rather than a reflective uncovering of a pre-given, essential self. I then show that authenticity and morality can come apart; what is authentic for someone need not be either morally good or good for them. I conclude that the authenticity of gender norms does not cut against the feminist commitments that I identify. This conclusion enables a theoretical space that is both respectful of trans experience and critical of dominant gender norms, an important liberatory goal.

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Section: Social Authenticitymentioning

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Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms

Bell

2024

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“…A Consumer Advisory Council was established in 1962, followed by a Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs and a President's Committee on Consumer Interests in 1964. The central issues of the 1960s legislative agenda included ‘truth-in-lending’ (full disclosure of rates and terms of consumer credit), ‘truth-in-packaging’ (clear labeling of content and measurements to make comparison shopping easier), food and drug safety, child safety, as well as expanded consumer education (see Johnson 1964, 1966, 1968). All this, however, did not fundamentally challenge the postwar purchasing power paradigm.…”

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Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption

Logemann

2011

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article is a comparative analysis of American and West German consumer policy and its underlying definition of the consumer interest during the decades following the Second World War. It traces diverging government responses to a transatlantic debate among economists, policy makers and a wider public over the proper balance between private and public consumption. Whereas postwar America put an emphasis on unrestrained private purchasing power and limited public spending, West German policy makers were more likely to include the provision of publicly supported and tax-funded goods and services as part of their definition of the consumer's interest. This contributed, the article proposes, to a fundamentally different perspective on government spending and taxation by middle-class consumers in both countries. Drawing on media sources, contemporary scholarly literature and government documents, I want to elaborate on our understanding of what counted as ‘consumption’ and ‘consumer goods’ and thereby encourage scholars in the growing field of consumption studies to look beyond the usual array of private goods. I furthermore question the influential notion of an ‘imperial’ reach of the American consumption model in the postwar era. Approaches to consumption and balancing private/public spending were markedly different in Western Europe, and the German case provides a prominent example of this.

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The Camelot Presidency

Konstantinou¹

2015

The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy

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The "Quest for National Purpose" of 1960

Cited by 9 publications

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Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms

Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms

Is it in the interest of the consumer to pay taxes? Transatlantic differences in postwar approaches to public consumption

The Camelot Presidency

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