Parody and Liberation in The New Amorous World of Charles Fourier

Beecher, Jonathan

doi:10.1093/hwj/20.1.125

“…Other considerations also illustrate the degree to which this ontology also shaped Fourier's radical analysis. One is Fourier's oft-noted habit (for example, see Beecher 1985 andGoldstein 1982) of uncritically reproducing the thenprevailing assumptions about women's nature. He regularly described women as the "fair sex," or the "weaker sex."…”

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No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory

Jose¹

2004

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The history of modern feminist political theories is often framed in terms of the already existing theories ofa number of radical nineteenth-century men philosophers such as James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. My argument takes issue with this way of framing feminist political theory by demonstrating that it rests on a derivation that remains squarely within the logic of malestream political theory. Each of these philosophers made use of a particular discursive trope that linked the idea of women's emancipation with the idea of social progress. I argue that this trope reproduced the masculinist signification and symbolism inherent in their particular political philosophies. I argue for a more positive, less masculinist, account of the history of feminist political thought.

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“…He argued that if women were truly free to choose their sexual or marital partners then the vices of adultery, cuckoldry, and prostitution would wither away. In other works Fourier went into great detail about the sexual freedom that would emerge in New Harmony (Beecher 1985).…”

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“…Other considerations also illustrate the degree to which this ontology also shaped Fourier's radical analysis. One is Fourier's oft‐noted habit (for example, see Beecher 1985 and Goldstein 1982) of uncritically reproducing the then‐prevailing assumptions about women's nature. He regularly described women as the “fair sex,” or the “weaker sex.” Another is that in his Utopian vision of a new world he still assumed that most women would continue to take up their so‐called natural roles as homemaker, or at least as helpmates to men.…”

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confidence: 99%

No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory

Jose¹

2004

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The history of modern feminist political theories is often framed in terms of the already existing theories ofa number of radical nineteenth-century men philosophers such as James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. My argument takes issue with this way of framing feminist political theory by demonstrating that it rests on a derivation that remains squarely within the logic of malestream political theory. Each of these philosophers made use of a particular discursive trope that linked the idea of women's emancipation with the idea of social progress. I argue that this trope reproduced the masculinist signification and symbolism inherent in their particular political philosophies. I argue for a more positive, less masculinist, account of the history of feminist political thought.With the resurgence of reinvigorated feminist ideas in the late 1960s, the history of western political and philosophical thought came to he subjected to intense scrutiny. Of particular concern were issues such as masculinist biases (conceptual, factual, methodological, and so on), the search for and recuperation of the works of women writers and thinkers, and the view that feminist ideas provided a legitimate framework for understanding politics and power. Until feminists began reappraising the received wisdom of then-prevailing histories of philosophy in general and political theory in particular, it was almost universally assumed that if there had been writings of any significance by women philosophers (political or otherwise) they would have found a place within the existing canon. The benefit of forty years or more of feminist scholarship makes abundantly clear the considerable history of feminist ideas that belies such an assumption.'

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Fourier, Charles

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2023

Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

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Parody and Liberation in The New Amorous World of Charles Fourier

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No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory

No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory

No More Like Pallas Athena: Displacing Patrilineal Accounts of Modern Feminist Political Theory

Fourier, Charles

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