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The Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power. However, it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. A distinctive feature of critique is that, in diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it ought to be guided bythe experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it tends to pay little heed to these experiences. The Gender of Critical Theory shows how these oversights and tensions stem from the preoccupation with normative foundations that has dominated Frankfurt School theory since Habermas and hasgiven rise to a mode of paradigm-led inquiry that undermines an effective critique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experience has parochializing effects on theory stands in tension with its other tenet that emancipatory critique ought to beprimarily concerned with the situation of oppressed groups. To alleviate this tension, this book offers a reconfigured account of context-transcendence as the critical insight afforded not by a monist interpretative paradigm but by reasoning dialogically across experiential and theoreticalperspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School critical theory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences of oppressed groups is one of its enabling conditions. Lived experience can reveal dimensions to oppression thatare not necessarily visible from the external vantage point of the theorist. The ways in which vulnerable groups respond to their circumstances may also make an invaluable contribution to the development of models of transformative social practice. Combining feminist ideas with inherent butunderutilised resources in the Frankfurt School tradition, this book proposes the idea of critique as theorising from experience. | The Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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