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Feminists taking the empty place: the construction of political identity

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Feminists taking the empty place: the construction of political identity

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Feminists taking the empty place: the construction of political identity book

ByTeresa Hoskyns
BookThe Empty Place

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
Imprint Routledge
Pages 21
eBook ISBN 9781315851617

ABSTRACT

Introduction This chapter explores women’s identity as one example of the types of political groupings described by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, and the project of radical democracy and discusses the role of spatial practice in constructing radical forms of political identity. Laclau and Mouffe argue that the democratic struggles of women are one example of the types of subject position or political identity, as described in Chapter 2.1

Can women be grouped into a political universal whole, regardless of political or cultural backgrounds? Surely, as feminist philosopher Judith Butler states, any grouping of women as a single political identity can only lead to mis-representations and contestations.2 Women have historically been treated differently from men in politics and the law, and Butler points out that the political identity of women has largely been formed through exclusions.3 Feminist struggles have been against those exclusions, such as demanding the right to vote and the right to equal wages &![ @ public realm and to be treated as equals to men.

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