Op-Ed Sunday! And today, scholar Emily Lindsay Jackson takes on Susan Sarandon and the contest between humanism and feminism: "From its beginnings as an anti-oppressive social movement advocating for women’s rights across deeply distorted legal spheres, feminism has created a powerful political dynamic. For Judith Butler, “feminism implies thinking about the practices of freedom.” When feminists challenge the often-glaring distortions between men and women in pay, rights, education, and healthcare – through the practice of critique in a world in flux – they are “innovating and creating new positions.” Yes, feminist politics are concerned with women’s rights, because who or what else is going to be? But they are also concerned with rejecting that which power, powerful systems, and powerful people allow one to be, think and say: the concern that informs all social and political resistance."
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 16:32:57 +0000