Professor Clare Chambers

Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

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Masculine domination, radical feminism and change

August 20, 2013 /

home_cover-2Feminist Theory Vol. 6 No. 3 (December 2005).

This article argues that the feminist turn to Pierre Bourdieu in an attempt to conceptualise the tension between freedom and agency is helpful, but is made more so when the similarities between the work of Bourdieu and radical feminist Catharine MacKinnon are noticed. MacKinnon’s strategies for change, particularly consciousness-raising, are well suited to a Bourdieuean approach.

You can read the paper here.

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