Johanna Oksala: Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations

• Published in: Human studies 2017, Vol.40 (1), p.151
• Main Author: Culbertson, Carolyn
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Autobiographies; Cognition & reasoning; Feminism; Gender; Metaphysics; Natural sciences; Neoliberalism; Person; Phenomenology; Politics; Power; Rationality; Schemas; Theory
• ISSN: 0163-8548; 1572-851X

First-person accounts of womens experiences often manifest if not a fully articulated feminist critique of their situation, at least a sense of disorientation and dissatisfaction with the dominant cultural and linguistic representations of their experiences (p. 45). [...]neoliberal women fail to recognize the broader political consequences of accepting the neoliberal model of womens progress. [...]feminists must acknowledge the pressure that exists today to frame the goals of the womens movement in purely economic terms. [...]one might just as well try to understand what exists by 3 It is worth bearing in mind that, when in his Critique of Pure Reason (1999) Kant delineates what can be known through cognition from what cannot (e.g., the immortality of the soul, God, human freedom), he does so both to establish the metaphysical foundations for the natural sciences and to demarcate a faculty of reason which can postulate what cognition cannot think. [...]Kants interest is not in abandoning metaphysics but in providing a new ground for it. 123 156 C. Culbertson describing concepts, schemas, and the forms of power that they sustain.