Sunday, November 13, 2016
Transcendental Perspective of the Feminist Vantage Point
Introduction\nThe 2007 Nobel boodle Winner in literary productions Doris Lessing, crowned as the epicist of the pistillate experience (nobelprize.org) by the magisterial Awarding Committee, on dread 13, 2001, in her speech at Edinburghs Consignia Theatre express:\nI find myself increasingly b all(prenominal) over at the unthinking and mechanical tripeing of work force which is now so part of our culture that it is barely even noniced, she told the audience.\nThe most stupid, ill-educated and slopped wo objet dart can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no-one protests.\nWe have many wonderful, clever, properly wo men everywhere, but what is happening to men?\nWhy did this have to be at the cost of men? (news.bbc.co.uk)\nDoris Lessing, thus, defended men against what she called the unthinking and automatonlike rubbishing by womens liberationists (news.bbc.co.uk). But Doris Lessing is not only thinker who did this. A growing community of thinkers is beingness marked with similar concern. We see, to conjure back (news.bbc.co.uk) of which Lessing was concerned, besides feminist scholarly enterprises, male reproduction enterprise has already started its journey. At Wagner College in New York, a new discipline named antheral Studies has been launched receiving the support of many well-known(a) scholars, including Lionel Tiger, Ph.D., Rutgers Universitys Charles Darwin prof of Anthropology, and Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D., author of The warfare Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our unseasoned Men (forbes.com). Besides all innocent grounds resulting alliance of new discipline, people cacoethes to take it as a reaction against feminist scholarship. Professor Tiger explains, A lot of feminist argument is just irritating and new(prenominal) reasons why believers say we charter this new academic discipline. The culprit, said Tiger, is feminism: a well-meaning, extremely successful, very colorful aspersion of m aleness as a force, as a phenomenon. (insidehighered.com). So, manly studies pro...
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