Open AccessFeminist critique of liberalism
Author(s) -
Erma Ivoš
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
radovi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2806-8432
pISSN - 0352-6798
DOI - 10.15291/radovifpsp.2484
Subject(s) - liberalism , argument (complex analysis) , feminism , public sphere , private sphere , sociology , feminist theory , context (archaeology) , politics , democracy , feminist philosophy , political philosophy , critical theory , gender studies , epistemology , political science , law and economics , law , philosophy , history , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology
In this essay the author deals with the achievement of feminist critiques of liberalism at the end of the century. The central thesis is the controversy of the public/private dichotomy as the main important position of the feminist argument. The differences between critical approach to the public/private dichotomy are explained through cultural, radical feminist and androginy arguments about the fact that the public sphere is patriarchaly constructed with strong effect to the private sphere. That is why feminist use the therm “liberal patriarchalism“. The author concludes that the political theory and practise are resistent to the feminist arguments, that radical transformation of democratic theory and practic is far from the possibility to be transformed what means that the context of feminism and its critique of liberalism will still remain the same.