Individualized femininity and feminist politics of choice
Individualized femininity and feminist politics of choice
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DOI：
10.1177/1350506815576602
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发表时间：
2015-08-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Budgeon, Shelley
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作者：
Budgeon, Shelley
妇女行使选择权一直是女权主义的核心政治主张之一。第二波女权主义关注女性在自由选择时所面临的限制，选择女权主义最近重新定位女权主义政治，呼吁承认女性实际上正在做出的选择。从这个角度来看，女权主义的作用是证实妇女的选择，而不是通过判断。本文分析了这种转变的方向定位女性的选择在一个晚现代的性别秩序中，选择的理想已经越来越多地与一种新的形式的女性特征为自决，个性化和授权。女性主义、女性气质和个人选择之间的关系在不断变化的社会条件下变得越来越复杂，选择女性主义没有对这种变化进行有效的分析，而是对女性主义观点进行了批评，这些观点的特点是过于规范。这种批评未能理解女权主义理想如何在晚期资本主义和新自由主义治理形式的服务中得到恢复。由于未能批判性地参与目前影响性别选择社会组织的进程，女权主义有助于建立一个个性化的新自由主义女权主义主体，这一主体从事着对新自由主义政府的复制至关重要的文化工作。
Women's right to exercise choice has been one of feminism's central political claims. Where second wave feminism focused on the constraints women faced in making free choices, choice feminism more recently reorients feminist politics with a call for recognition of the choices women are actually making. From this perspective the role of feminism is to validate women's choices without passing judgement. This article analyses this shift in orientation by locating women's choices within a late modern gender order in which the ideal of choice has increasingly been associated with a new form of femininity characterized as self-determining, individuated and empowered'. Instead of offering an effective analysis of the changing social conditions within which the relationship between feminism, femininity and individual choice has become increasingly complicated, choice feminism directs criticism at feminist perspectives characterized as overly prescriptive. This critique fails to appreciate how feminist ideals have been recuperated in the service of late capitalism and neoliberal forms of governance. By failing to engage critically with processes currently impacting on the social organization of gender choice feminism aids in the constitution of an individuated neoliberal feminist subject which performs cultural work vital to the reproduction of neoliberal governmentality.