Feminist Kuramlarin Kimlik Krizine Karşi Jean-Jacques Rousseau’nun Eşitlikçi Ve Demokratik Mirasini Yeniden Düşünmek
Against Identity Crisis in Feminist Theories: The Egalitarian and Democratic Legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Revisited

Summary/Abstract: In analyzing the feminist scholarship on the Western political thought tradition in general and feminist appropriation of the canons of political philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau in particular, this article aims to highlight and reassess the current identity crisis in feminist theory arising from the everlasting dispute over its subject, namely the category of ‘woman,` and multiplicity of the subject positions of the ‘woman’. By detecting the problem as a nominalist effect in feminist politics, this article searches a remedy for feminist theoretical fragmentation from within the political thought tradition and revisits the democratic and egalitarian legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is also deemed as the archmisogynist and yet wrote about gender issues extensively and produced a rich discourse on moral, sexual and political reform by directly addressing women as the primary subject for the establishment of a well-ordered society.

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