Harvard Civil Rights: Civil Liberties Law Review
Harvard Civil Rights: Civil Liberties Law Review
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哈佛民权:公民自由法评论
DOI:
10.1016/0191-6599(89)90178-2
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发表时间:
1993
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0.3
通讯作者:
R. Alday
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作者:
R. Alday
In retrospect, Joan Kelly’s work may be seen to mark something of a plateau. Paralleling the feminist movement’s concern with female identity and with the charting of female experience, Kelly emphasised the importance of consciousness. She movingly describes the way in which, when she was first asked to contribute to women’s studies teaching, she refused, because, as a historian of the Renaissance, she considered that she had nothing to talk about. But, she came to realise that the way in which the whole picture she held of the Renaissance was “partial, distorted, limited and deeply flawed by those limitations’(p. xii) because of the questions that had not been asked about women and the relations between the sexes. Much of her later work focussed on exploring the development of consciousness among early modern women writers and their refutation of the male picture of the world which bore no relation to their experience. Kelly worked within a marxist tradition, but is best remembered for her lucid treatment of the vexed debate between marxist and radical feminist theorists about sex versus class. Kelly insisted that neither should be seen as causal, but rather that the sex/gender system and that of productive relations operate simultaneously, with patriarchy assimilating itself perfectly to the socio-economic, political and cultural structures of capitalism. Kelly’s ‘doubled vision’opened the way to seeing how all aspects of the social world-the public and the private-are gendered, while retaining a commitment to a materialist analysis.Ketly’s work represented a substantiai contribution to feminist theory, but it did not result in women being written into history. Whife KeBy may never have been able to see Renaissance history in quite the same way again, her own original work continued to focus on rediscovering female writers, rather than on rewriting Renaissance history by prioritising gender. As Joan Scott, remarks, it has unfortunately remained possible for