Naslov
Feminism revisited: How did Women: the Longest Revolution emerge? An analysis of Juliet Mitchell’s classic work

Autori
Kašić, Biljana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
14 th POSTGRADUATE COURSE FEMINISMS IN A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Beyond the Ruins of Capitalism: Stolen Concepts, Deep Silences, Resurfaced Frictions

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 24.05.2021. - 28.05.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Juliet Mitchell, women's emancipation, feminism, socialist revolution

Sažetak
What does the concept of the political as a radical, critical change mean today and how does it go with the struggle against women’s oppression, what is the role of ‘speaking the unspoken’ and through which corners of our contemporarity does it arise, in which ways could revolutionary theory be of relevance for fighting for freedom in a time where ‘the revenge of capitalism’s ruling class’ generates extreme inequalities by governing, exploiting and colonizing human capital, namely humans, what is the state of the Left, are but some of the questions seeking articulation once more. Taking the text Women: the Longest Revolution (1966) written by Juliet Mitchell, one of the most influential figures of the second-wave feminism and psychoanalytic theory, as a stimulating departure for feminist positioning today, I would like to elaborate further on the theoretical questions she posed, their relevance and their ambiguities. On the one hand this text provided the clearest and sharpest account of women’s position in the mid-1960s at the crossroads of socialist vs radical feminism in light of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), on the other hand it moved beyond their general assumptions offering instead in conjunction with a psychoanalytic lens and Marxist ideas a new visionary project of women’s emancipation. In order to revisit Juliet Mitchell’s idea of “woman’s estate”, its materialist analysis and links to S. de Beauvoir and L. Althusser’s thoughts on ideology, patriarchy and sexism as well as to Marxist insights into the dominant mode of production, I will endeavour to take into account the critical perspective of two contemporary thinkers, W. Brown and G. Ch. Spivak.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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