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Feminism: Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those societies. See also Equal rights, Emancipation.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jürgen Habermas on Feminism - Dictionary of Arguments

IV 578
Feminism/Habermas: I differentiate between emancipation and resistance and retreat potentials.
>Emancipation
, >Civil disobedience.
After the American civil rights movement, which has meanwhile led to the particularist assertion of black subcultures, only the feminist movement is in the tradition of bourgeois socialist liberation movements: the fight against patriarchal oppression and for the fulfilment of a promise long anchored in the recognized universalist foundations of morality and law gives feminism the impetus of an offensive movement, while all other movements have a rather defensive character. The resistance and retreat movement is aimed at the containment of formal-organized areas of action in favour of communicative-structured areas of action, not at conquering new...
IV 579
...territories. Of course, feminism has a particularist core in common with these movements: the emancipation of women should not only create formal equality, eliminate male prerogatives, but overturn concrete forms of life shaped by male monopolies.
>Equal rights, >Equal opportunities.
Moreover, women from the historical heritage of the gender division of labour to which they were subjected in the bourgeois small family have virtues of contrast, a value register that is complementary to the male world and opposite to one-sidedly rationalised everyday practice.
>Division of labor.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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