Bridging Gender Divides: Toward a Transcendentalist Feminism

Autor/in	Saito, Naoko
Titel	Bridging Gender Divides: Toward a Transcendentalist Feminism
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 72 (2022) 6, S.763-776 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Saito, Naoko)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12559
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Feminism; Humanism; Caring; Ethics; Politics; Realism; Democracy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Feminismus; Humanismus; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Ethik; Politik; Realismus; Demokratie
Abstract	How can we build a path from the binary of gender to the unity of common humanity? What kind of difference can the "different voice" of feminism make as a "human voice?" In this article, Naoko Saito argues that the way we talk about the "difference" of a "different voice" needs to be radically transformed. To envision a route to such a transformation, she explores an alternative possibility of feminism in the American transcendentalism of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. First, Saito critically examines the politics of recognition and suggests a susceptibility to binary thinking in its approach. Second, as a way of transcending the binary mode of thinking, Saito introduces the humanist feminism of the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Third, as a way of elucidating the radicality of Fuller's transcendentalist feminism, Saito introduces the feminine voice of two male philosophers -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Stanley Cavell -- as her conversational partners. By radically converting the way we talk about difference of voice, the transcendentalist feminism of Fuller, Emerson, and Cavell provides a third way that lies beyond the politics of recognition and care ethics. In conclusion, Saito proposes that the cultivation of the feminine subject requires an alternative political education that resists assimilation into political realism. This would realize our common humanity and, in its crossing of divides between men and women, would create democracy from within. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01