The Gendered Subject of Violence: Towards a Feminist Account of Ethical Freedom Öffentlichkeit
Knisely, Lisa Catherine (2012)
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Abstract
Abstract
The Gendered Subject of Violence:
Towards a Feminist Account of Ethical Freedom
In this dissertation, the author employs the ethical writings of
Simone de Beauvoir (1944,
1945a, 1946a, 1948, 1949) to argue for the importance of the
concept of ethical freedom
as a critical intervention
in contemporary feminist theories of violence and
vulnerability.
A feminist ethics of freedom, in the tradition of Beauvoir,
situates social actors as
ethically and politically responsible while simultaneously
acknowledging how oppression
circumscribes concrete possibilities for ethical thought and
action. Although Judith Butler
(2004, 2005, 2009), among others, has recently argued that the
ethical difficulty arising
out of human inter-relationality and intersubjectivity should lead
to an ethics of non-
violence, the author maintains that such an ethics of non-violence
fails to consider the
significance of oppression for ethical thought. The author suggests
that in order to
consider the relevance of oppression for ethics, feminist ethicists
need to acknowledge
the ambiguity of ethics instead of arguing for the ethicality of
non-violence in all lived
situations. The conceptualization of oppression within a variety of
philosophical and
feminist theoretical traditions is critically evaluated in this
dissertation in order to
understand how these intellectual traditions construe the ethical
relationship between
violence and oppression. Specifically addressed are classical and
modern liberalism, post-
Hegelian Marxist and post-colonial thought, and liberal, radical,
and poststructuralist
feminisms.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking the Relation Between Violence and
Oppression................................... 1
Chapter One: Liberal and Revolutionary Ethics of Violence and
the Absence of
Gendered
Oppression..............................................................................................................
7
Chapter Two: "Without Recourse to Force": Feminist Critiques of
the Violence
Against Women Paradigm
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29
Chapter Three: The Ambiguity of Oppression: Simone de Beauvoir's
Ethics of
Violence
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65
Chapter Four: Oppression, Normative Violence, and Vulnerability:
The Beauvoirian
Legacy of Butler's
Ethics.........................................................................................................
100
Conclusion: Affirming Feminist Ethical
Freedom.....................................................................
135
Works
Cited............................................................................................................................
142
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