I don’t know much about feminism, but the “waves” model seems clumsy for describing at least the development of the philosophy. Perhaps it works for the politics. The philosophy seems to have developed more like parallel lineages with continuity of ideas across generations.
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I read Friedan and part of Beauvoir out of “need to grok female viewpoint” motive in my early 20s. Not strong enough a motive to get far. Renewed interest now is narrower and not about women so much as temporality where women thinkers seem to have had unusual amount to say.
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Maybe men think in space by default while women think in time by default
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I like this theory. Which work of Hannah Arendt did you have in mind? Haven't come across Donna Harroway.
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Human Condition is the only one I’ve read. I’ve read Wikipedia glosses on rest. Harroway via Cthulucene talk where she riffs off Le Guin carrier-bag theory.
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Butler’s contribution was/is more about biological essentialism than gender. coming to a field that understood sex/uality as biological but gender as constructed/social, she flipped this and said *actually* gender *and* sex/uality cease to exist if not constantly performed
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