structural domination and structural freedom: a feminist perspective
structural domination and structural freedom: a feminist perspective
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DOI：
10.1057/fr.2009.40
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
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1.8
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Einspahr, Jennifer
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作者：
Einspahr, Jennifer
在女性主义理论的最初阶段，女性主义者将父权制理解为男性统治的结构，许多思想家转向理论化的统治，而专注于女性的（建构的）主体性，身份和代理。虽然这促进了对女性偏好、欲望和选择的形成的重要见解，但这种对主观性和主体形成的关注在很大程度上掩盖了对父权制作为男性统治结构的更深入理解，同时在机构和自由之间产生了省略。在这篇文章中，我移动到显示如何统治作为一个结构性的概念，可以帮助我们收回的想法“父权制”作为一个来源的妇女的系统性压迫，而自由作为非统治，从早期的共和概念化的自由，可以帮助我们消除歧义，从代理的相对位置的行动者在社会和政治结构。因此，作为非支配的结构自由对女权主义思想家来说是有用的，因为它使我们对不平等的社会和政治关系中固有的动态进行了批判性的购买，并且可以与塑造和证明更强大和更弱群体之间互动的制度和意识形态明确联系起来。此外，从这个角度来看，可以分析支配的交叉结构，而不是交叉的身份类别，使我们能够考虑到交叉性，避免需要将女权主义行动建立在单一的“类别妇女”之上。最后，这一分析指出了自由与参与创造构成我们集体生活的物质和象征结构之间的激进民主联系。
After an initial period of feminist theorizing concerned with understanding patriarchy as a structure of male domination, many thinkers turned away from theorizing domination as such and focused instead on women's ( constructed) subjectivity, identity, and agency. While this has fostered important insights into the formation of women's preferences, desires, and choices, this focus on subjectivity and subject formation has largely overshadowed deeper understandings of patriarchy as a structure of male domination while producing elisions between agency and freedom. In this article, I move to show how domination as a structural concept can help us to reclaim the idea of `patriarchy' as a source of women's systematic oppression while freedom as non-domination, derived from early republican conceptualizations of freedom, can help us to disambiguate freedom from agency by taking as central the relative positions of actors within social and political structures. Structural freedom as non-domination is thus useful for feminist thinkers in that it gives us critical purchase on the dynamics inherent in unequal social and political relationships and can be linked clearly to the institutions and ideologies that shape and justify interactions between more powerful and less powerful groups. Further, from this point of view intersecting structures of domination can be analysed rather than intersecting identity categories, allowing us to take intersectionality into account and avoiding the need to ground feminist action on a unitary `category woman'. Finally, this analysis points toward the radical democratic connexion between freedom and participation in the creation of the material and symbolic structures that frame our collective lives.