This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Psychology & Sociology has 10 clues. Answers range from 5 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
________argues that the Enlightenment ideals were simply a form of power/knowledge that legitimated domination by western white middle class males. These supposedly universal ideals that claimed to apply to all humanity in reality excluded women and other oppressed groups.
Butler argues that the white, western, middle class women who dominate the feminist movement have falsely claimed to represent '_________' She concludes that feminists are wrong to believe they can adapt the enlightenment project so that it some how includes all women, because women are not a single entity who share the same essence.
For Poststructuralism, there is no fixed _______of what it is to be a woman.
Because our identities are constituted through_________, and because there are many different discourses in different times and cultures, there can be no fixed entity called 'womanhood' that is the same everywhere.
For example, Womanhood in______________is constituted partly by Islamic discourse.
By contrast, womanhood in the west is constituted to a greater extent by the discourses of advertising and the __________.
Butler argues that poststructuralism offers__________for feminism.
Poststructuralism enables feminists to 'de-__________' (analyse) different discourses to reveal how they subordinate women.
Different discourses give rise to different forms of ___________, and thus to different identities and experience for women. Likewise, each discourse provokes its own distinct form of resistance and struggle, with its own aims and demands.
In Butlers view, therefore, by rejecting____________and by stressing the diversity of discourses, poststructuralism recognises and legitimates the diversity of womens lives and struggles, rather than prioritising some and excluding others.