Bridging Gender Divides: Toward a Transcendentalist Feminism

IF 1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Naoko Saito
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How can we build a path from the binary of gender to the unity of common humanity? What kind of difference can the “different voice” of feminism make as a human voice? In this article, Naoko Saito argues that the way we talk about the difference of a “different voice” needs to be radically transformed. To envision a route to such a transformation, she explores an alternative possibility of feminism in the American transcendentalism of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. First, Saito critically examines the politics of recognition and suggests a susceptibility to binary thinking in its approach. Second, as a way of transcending the binary mode of thinking, Saito introduces the humanist feminism of the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Third, as a way of elucidating the radicality of Fuller's transcendentalist feminism, Saito introduces the feminine voice of two male philosophers — Ralph Waldo Emerson and Stanley Cavell — as her conversational partners. By radically converting the way we talk about difference of voice, the transcendentalist feminism of Fuller, Emerson, and Cavell provides a third way that lies beyond the politics of recognition and care ethics. In conclusion, Saito proposes that the cultivation of the feminine subject requires an alternative political education that resists assimilation into political realism. This would realize our common humanity and, in its crossing of divides between men and women, would create democracy from within.

跨越性别鸿沟:走向先验主义女权主义
我们如何从性别的二元对立走向共同人性的统一?作为人类的声音,女权主义的“不同声音”能带来什么样的不同?在本文中,齐藤直子(Naoko Saito)认为,我们谈论“不同声音”的差异的方式需要从根本上改变。为了设想这种转变的路径,她在玛格丽特·富勒和拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生的美国先验主义中探索了女权主义的另一种可能性。首先,斋藤批判性地审视了承认的政治,并在其方法中提出了对二元思维的敏感性。其次,作为一种超越二元思维模式的方式,齐藤介绍了19世纪美国先验主义者玛格丽特·富勒的人文主义女性主义。第三,作为阐明富勒的先验主义女权主义的激进性的一种方式,齐藤引入了两位男性哲学家的女性声音——拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生和斯坦利·卡维尔——作为她的对话伙伴。富勒、爱默生和卡维尔的先验女性主义,通过彻底改变我们谈论声音差异的方式,提供了超越政治认知和关怀伦理的第三种方式。综上所述,齐藤提出,女性主体的培养需要一种替代的政治教育,这种教育抵制被政治现实主义同化。这将实现我们共同的人性,并通过跨越男女之间的分歧,从内部创造民主。
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EDUCATIONAL THEORY
EDUCATIONAL THEORY EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: The general purposes of Educational Theory are to foster the continuing development of educational theory and to encourage wide and effective discussion of theoretical problems within the educational profession. In order to achieve these purposes, the journal is devoted to publishing scholarly articles and studies in the foundations of education, and in related disciplines outside the field of education, which contribute to the advancement of educational theory. It is the policy of the sponsoring organizations to maintain the journal as an open channel of communication and as an open forum for discussion.
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