Concept
Feminist theory
Overview
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, media studies, psychoanalysis, political theory, home economics, literature, education, and philosophy.
Feminist theory often focuses on analyzing gender inequality. Themes often explored in feminist theory include discrimination, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, patriarchy, stereotyping, art history and contemporary art, and aesthetics.
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In the third place, we shall limit ourselves to the particular consideration of the principle itself. Each principle has reigned for a certain time, and when the whole system of the world has been explained from this special form, it is called a philosophical system. Its whole theory has certainly to be learned, but as long as the principle is abstract it is not sufficient to embrace the forms belonging to our…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Feminist theory is; the author is tied to Feminist theory in the knowledge graph.
It is usually added that understanding must not go too far. Which is so far correct, that understanding is not an ultimate, but on the contrary finite, and so constituted that when carried to extremes it veers round to its opposite. It is the fashion of youth to dash about in abstractions: but the man who has learnt to know life steers clear of the abstract 'either--or,' and keeps to the concrete.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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In the first place, the opinion in favour of the present system, which entirely subordinates the weaker sex to the stronger, rests upon theory only; for there never has been trial made of any other: so that experience, in the sense in which it is vulgarly opposed to theory, cannot be pretended to have pronounced any verdict. And in the second place, the adoption of this system of inequality never was the result of…
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Close in meaning to Feminist theory; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Feminist theory
- Feminism
- Hélène Cixous
- Bell hooks
- Donna Haraway
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Sally Haslanger
- Susan Bordo
- Louise Antony
- Elizabeth Grosz
- Naomi Zack
Related ideas
- Family
- Feminism
- The Feminine Mystique
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- George Eliot
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- History of literature
- Judith Butler
- Feminist epistemology
- Jacques Lacan
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Mind–body dualism
- Environmentalism
- Sociology
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Critical race theory
- Social constructionism
- Art history
- Aesthetics
- Linguistics
- Political philosophy
- Patriarchy
- Donna Haraway
Place in the tradition
Part of Essentialism.