202 Susan Bordo is the author of The Destruction of Hillary Clinton. In this paper I lay out what 1 take to be the crucial insights in Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy” and point out some additional difficulties with the skeptical position. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, State University of New York at Stony Brook, "For One Royal History Has Added Insult to Injury", "The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists", Faculty page at the University of Kentucky, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Bordo&oldid=984775758, Articles that may contain original research from July 2009, All articles that may contain original research, Wikipedia articles with style issues from July 2009, BLP articles lacking sources from July 2009, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2009, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Bordo, Susan. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women. For Bordo "the rules of femininity have come to be culturally transmitted more and more through the deployment of standardized visual images";[13] cultural transmitters such as television and print media work insidiously to "impose models of bodily beauty that get construed as freely chosen options by those victimized by them". Hardcover Bordo argues that "knowledge is 'embodied,' produced from a 'standpoint,' by a body that is located as a material entity among other material entities". Something went wrong. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. ( Bordo's writing contributes to a body of feminist, cultural and gender studies, linking modern consumer culture directly to the formation of gendered bodies. Albany: State U of New York P, 1987. Please try your request again later. While certain cultural theorists, for example John Fiske, who wrote Television Culture (1990), see elements of culture like television as "demonstrating the way representational codes and techniques shape our perception" but also as a means for resistance, where audience members could "decode" such messages and thus be able to "think resistantly about their lives",[12] Bordo sees cultural coding as a more pernicious, binding and overwhelming force. In the reissue of the book, Bordo considers the cultural images of the female body within the framework of the patriarchy, contemporary feminism, and postindustrial capitalism. Bordo, Susan. The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties. Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election Susan Bordo Sun 2 … [9], Bordo's critique of gendered, and particularly feminine, bodies stems from both feminist and gender studies methodologies. Philosophy and Feminism: The Case of Susan Bordo Philosophy and Feminism: The Case of Susan Bordo BERNICK, SUSAN E. 1992-08-01 00:00:00 In this paper I lay out what 1 take to be the crucial insights in Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy” and point out some additional difficulties with the skeptical position. [7] Bordo questions such a purely textual body for "If the body is treated as pure text, subversive, destabilizing elements can be emphasized and freedom and self-determination celebrated; but one is left wondering, is there a body in this text?". She critiques, re-evaluates, and reconfigures old and new feminist methodology, not excluding certain earlier feminist concerns that focused on the dichotomies of oppressor/oppressed, victimizer/victim, but re-evaluating their effectiveness and application to contemporary feminine concerns. Susan Hekman points out that "[l]ike an increasing number of contemporary feminist theorists [Bordo] argues for a selective use of postmodern theories"[7] and one way Bordo's work can be seen in a poststructuralist/postmodernist light is through her usage of Foucauldian methodology. Available for everyone, funded by readers, In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election. %PDF-1.3
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[4] Bordo claims that "[w]hat remains the constant element throughout historical variation is the construction of body as something apart from the true self (whether conceived as soul, mind, spirit, will, creativity, freedom . .) Revista de estudios de género: La ventana, Feminismos y pedagogías en la vida cotidiana. Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of Use, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00915.x. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. In 2003, the tenth anniversary reissue edition of Unbearable Weight was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize after its original release date. The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists. If, in a Foucauldian sense, power works from below, then "prevailing forms of selfhood and subjectivity (gender among them) are maintained, not chiefly through physical restraint and coercion (although social relations may certainly contain such elements), but through individual self-surveillance and self-correction to norms". Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. If you do not receive an email within 10 minutes, your email address may not be registered, © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. h���N1�_e��瓄"��+�P!�
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