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Constructing Women’s Humanity from Feminist Standpoints



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Jiang Qianyu

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2017.03.002

This article analyzes the philosophic significance of women’s academic works in three major schools of feminist political theories. The author first argues that the universal masculine political subjects are faced with unavoidable dilemmas in social life, which can only be solved by restoring the philosophic ontology of women’s humanity. This paper uncovers intellectual values of love, care, and harmonious relationships from liberal feminist theories, prioritizes radical feminists’ postulation that female sexuality plays complicated roles in struggles against patriarchal rule and explores socialist feminists’ propositions about women’s productive and reproductive labor as a part of the economic foundations of society. The author concludes that women’s work is essential for constructing the concrete epistemology and humanity in any philosophic work, because classical philosophers’ denial of women’s life experiences has violated their own epistemological standpoints for isolating knowledge from social practices.

women’s humanity, feminist philosophy, sexuality