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Freedom Fit for a Feminist? On the Feminist Potential of Quentin Skinner's Conception of Republican Freedom

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The aim of this paper is to make it credible that there are feminist reasons for being a republican about freedom. In focus is Quentin Skinner’s conception of republican, or “neo-Roman”, freedom. Republican theory in history has not excelled in making poverty, gender hierarchy, and racism within the republic into main sources of concern. So can there be a radical republican theory of liberty fit for a feminist, to make sense of arbitrary power in the every day life of work, households, and local communities, where power is vague and unorganized? Proceeding from three questions – What does freedom mean? Under what circumstances does the issue arise? Why should we care? – I argue that in a feminist republicanism the lived experience of the unfree will have primary and not, as Skinner now suggests, secondary importance. A feminist republican will be particularly concerned not only with what unfreedom is but with what it is like.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

86-103

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History

Volym

17

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Helsinki University Press

Ämne

  • Philosophy
  • History of Ideas

Nyckelord

  • feminism
  • republicanism
  • freedom
  • institutional circumstance
  • lived experience
  • arbitrary power
  • citizen
  • Quentin Skinner

Status

Published