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Teasing Feminist Sense from Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
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Abstract

We sometimes experience more than we can say, and often it is the “questions” posed by such nondiscursive reality to which feminist writings speak most profoundly. Feminists should therefore decline Richard Rorty's neopragmatist exhortation to forgo all appeals to “women's experience.” Invoking an alternative account of pragmatism's import for feminism, I explore the problematic relationship between the experience of being pregnant and the language we use in talking about it.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism , Spring 1993, pp. 124 - 144
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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