Introduction to Political Theory

Radical feminism Radical feminism, as indicated from its critiques of other positions, takes the view that feminism ought to dea ...

consciousness-raising as the ‘feminist method’ (Humm, 1992: 119) – a coming together by women to describe problems collectively ...

Nor are liberal feminists persuaded by the arguments for patriarchy. The notion that male domination enters into the very fibre ...

Black feminist and philosophical feminist critique Black feminists are sceptical about a supra-ethnic notion of sisterhood. All ...

difficult for unsympathetic men to dismiss feminism as a man-hating, irrational doctrine. Standpoint feminists are, it seems to ...

are black in societies where whiteness is seen as the ‘norm’, one is more likely to observe that women may also be poor, disable ...

Lynne Segal speaks for many socialist feminists who express concern at the fragmentation that has taken place within the women’s ...

to existing norms of scientific inquiry. If projects are rigorously designed, hypotheses properly tested and data soundly interp ...

standpoint bent’ (Hoffman, 2001: 63), and we would suggest that the question of a ‘standpoint bent’ is best understood by lookin ...

facts do not speak for themselves but imply evaluation, and therefore it is naive to imagine that a purely scientific (rather th ...

feminism, it speaks (like radical feminism) of women in abstract terms, and therefore unthinkingly adopts the position of white ...

Questions Is feminism still relevant in today’s world? Which theory of feminism – the liberal, the socialist, the radical or th ...

Wollstonecraft, M. (1992) A Vindication of the Rights of WomenLondon: Penguin. Zalewski, M. (2000) Feminism after PostmodernismL ...

Disentangle various concepts that often get run together in debates over multiculturalism; in particular, we will distinguish b ...

France’s ‘burqa ban’ I n 2004 the French National Assembly voted 494–36 in favour of banning ‘conspicuous’ religious symbols in ...

What is multiculturalism? The term multiculturalism has gained wide currency in both academic and popular debate, and its employ ...

In a few short sentences it is implied that ‘culture’ equates to a language group, an ethnic group and an ethnonational group. K ...

that underlying multiculturalism is the facilitation of what he terms ‘group evolutionary strategies’, where a group evolutionar ...

Religion Much debate about cultural diversity is really about the relationship of religion and politics – that is, of the conseq ...

married, cricket-loving. And, in Amersterdam, when Mohammed Bouyeri murdered film-maker Theo van Gogh he attached a poem entitle ...