Because individuality and choice are primary to me. Apparently, this makes me a neo-liberal or 'choice feminist' and this is bad & means I don't understand how much women's choices are constrained by culture. Well, no, I don't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I wouldn’t call that ‘choice feminism’. According to the latter ideology, whatever choice a woman makes is automatically feminist & empowering to her as a woman.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
Women have far more agency than some like to claim, & we do make choices. Sometimes we make choices in line with societal expectations, sometimes we don’t; it does not follow that any choice made by a woman is inherently empowering (as choice feminists claim).
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Replying to @StephanieLahey
Well, I don't think I'm a feminist at all, obviously. Also, I'm not sure how many choice feminists do think that or how much of it is a straw man. Normally comes down to sex-work, make-up & motherhood. I'm reading about it at the moment.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I’d say it’s about more than career versus motherhood, & would highly recommend Michaele L. Ferguson on the topic …
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
Linda Hirshman coined the term “choice feminism” in 2005 in ref to the view that feminism had liberated women to make whatever choices they pleased, writing “It all count[s] as ‘feminist’ as long as [a woman] *chose* it”.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
(which is a ridiculous position). Ferguson has good summaries and critiques.
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I don't agree with her argument at all. She blames liberalism for women making their own choices and says that because the personal is political, women should judge each others life choices.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I wouldn’t entirely agree with that assessment; I’d say she’s more pointing to an incoherence in certain strains of feminism. How one understands ‘feminism’ (an increasingly fraught discussion itself) likely plays a rôle here.
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I can't support this:pic.twitter.com/3IgSkX2OqL
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I found myself much more on board with Snyder-Hall defence of choice feminism in the same publication. It doesn't say any choice a woman makes is feminist but that women can feminist whilst wearing make-up, being homemakers & living within gender roles.pic.twitter.com/lWNu4PGV2S
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