Later Reflections on Critical Theory

Abstract

This article offers a revision of the sociological legacy of the first Frankfurt School in what is referred to as its vision of the relationship between men and women. In the case of the first Frankfurt School, women did form part of their models of analysis, but this is a problematic visualization, where what we call the strategy of mutilated nature dominates. In these examples women appear as metaphors of a negated and reconstructed nature that oppose culture. They represent the best example of the general decadence of modern society, a constitutive yet reduced element of culture and men. They were to be seen not as subjects but rather as bodies and objects in a world of subjugated masculine subjects. KEYWORDS first Frankfurt School, modern society, vision of the relationships between men and womenWomen's studies has its origin in the public apparition of feminism (Ballarín et al., 1995: 14), in the discovery of the women's movement that women in general have lived excluded from the intellectual, cultural and political world (Smith, 1987: 1). As Susan Yeandle points out, women's studies has in part the task of calling attention to the way in which many political theories and manifestations have formulated as a norm the activities and experience of males, making women's lives invisible in the process (Yeandle, 1998: 19).In the area of sociology, it is maintained that though sociologists say that they refer to all human beings, sociological discourse has been and continues to be predominantly masculine (Astelarra, 1990;Durán, 1982 Durán, , 1993 Elejabeitia, 1991;Izquierdo, 1988Izquierdo, , 1994. As Carmen Elejabeitia has pointed out, sociological discourse responds to the need for a classifying ordering that obtains masculine knowledge in its progress from the unknown (Elejabeitia, 1991: 217-26). Expressing this in a somewhat more subtle way, M. Angeles Durán states that more than research into power or the power of the research, it is the power over Journal of Classical Sociology

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