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- Nevertheless, it is possible to identify three main ways in which feminists have conceptualized power: as a resource to be (re)distributed, as domination, and as empowerment, both individual and collective.
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Oct 19, 2005 · Under conditions of subordination, women typically do not have the power to define the terms of their situation, but by controlling access, Frye argues, they can begin to assert control over their own self-definition. Both of these – controlling access and definition – are ways of taking power.
- Foucault, Michel
On Foucault’s account, the relation of power and knowledge...
- Feminist Perspectives on The Body
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- Arendt, Hannah
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- Liberal Feminism
a feminism concerned only with ending the oppression women...
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- Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism
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- Beauvoir, Simone De
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- Foucault, Michel
Both psychologists and feminists believe power is an important and ubiquitous concept, yet its definition and scope eludes both groups. In this introduction to a special issue on women and power, we suggest three points to help organize and interpret research in the area.
- Janice D. Yoder, Arnold S. Kahn
- 1992
Jan 18, 2018 · In this chapter, we introduce a theory, power basis theory, to account for the stability of gender inequality in power, and how it explains women’s difficulty in gaining power in gender-binary cultural systems.
The notion of women’s empowerment entails three key elements: power, autonomy, and subjectivity. First, three alternative sources of power increase women’s ability to make strategic choices in their lives: “power with,” “power to,” and “power within.” “Power with” is the group- or collective-based power to change social ...
Dec 29, 2023 · People must develop power to in order to band together (power with) to challenge power hierarchies (power over). I discuss how power is implicated in collective action, with special attention paid to the extensive literature in social and personality psychology and a focus on feminist activism.
- lduncan@smith.edu
Historic tensions between feminism and power remain to be resolved by creative theorizing and shrewd, strategic activism. We cannot know whether women are “naturally” interested in top leadership posts until they can attain such positions without making personal and family sacrifices radically disproportionate to those faced by men.
We are constantly reminded, then, of women's supposed power: a power unique to them, and which makes it unreasonable to call them oppressed. One response to such claims is an empirical search: What in fact is the extent of women's power? Claims about it may simply be false; women may have no signficant power over men. In that case, the con
