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Politics without Human Nature? Reconstructing a Common Humanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Judith W. Kay
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Abstract

Political action requires a concept of humanity grounded in an explicit notion of human nature. Feminists apprehensive about poststructuralism's implications for a feminist politics need methods and discourses that allow feminist politics to proceed toward a vision of human well-being. Recent work by Chris Weedon and Erica Sherover-Marcuse highlights the need for hypotheses that can guide efforts to dismantle oppressed habits of being and help women evaluate and develop political strategies for universal solidarity.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994, pp. 21 - 52
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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