Estudiando Feminist Philosophy

Un resumen...

"To be conscious that you are still a slave still living under oppression is the first step on the road to emancipation. We the women in Arab countries realize that we are still slaves, still oppressed, not because we belong to the East, not because we are Arab, or members of Islamic societies, but as a result of the patriarchal class system that has dominated the world since thousands of years"

Nawal El Saadawi

"The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one's life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped"

"The door-opening pretends to be a helpful service, but the helpfulness is false. This can be seen by nothing that it will be done whether or not it makes any practical sense (...) Furthermore, these were numerous acts of unneeded or even noisome 'help' occur in counterpoint to a pattern of men not being helpful in many practical ways in which women might welcome help (...) The gallant gestures have no practical meaning. Their meaning is symbolic. The door-opening and similar services provided are services which really are needed by people who are for one reason or another incapacitated - unwell, burdened with parcels, etc. So the message is that women are incapable"

"Women are oppressed, as women. Members of certain racial and/or economic groups and classes, both the males and the females, are oppressed as members of those races and/or classes. But men are not oppressed as men... and isn't it strange that any of us should have been confused and mystified about such a simple thing?"

Marilyn Frye

"Sexism, racism, and class exploitaton constitute interlocking systems of domination - that sex, race, and class, and not sex alone, determine the nature of any female's identity, status, and circumstance, the degree to which she will or will not be dominated, te extent to which she will have the power to dominate"

bell hooks

"The commodification of reproductive technologies, and, in particular, the labor services of pregnant surrogate mothers, means that money is being made and that, therefore, someone is being exploited"

Angela Davis

"..in Jerusalem, Orthodox men throw stones at women who don't have their arms covered. Palestinian boys who throw stones at Israeli soldiers are shot with bullets, rubber-coated or not. Stone throwing at women by Orthodox men is considered trivial, not real assault. Somehow, it's their right. Well, what isn't?"

Andrea Dworkin

"Oppression refers to the vast and deep injustices some groups suffer as a consequence of often unconscious assumptions and reactions of well-meaning people in ordinary interactions, media and cultural stereotypes, and structural features of bureaucratic hierarchies and market mechanisms - in short, the normal processes of everyday life"

Iris Young

".... like it or not, your body positions you within a social hierarchy"

"Although identifying someone as a member of a social group invokes a set of appropriate norms, what these norms are is not fixed. What it means to be a woman, or to be White, or to be Latino, in this sense, is unstable and always open to contest. The instability across time is necessary to maintain the basic structure of gender and race relations through other social changes: as social roles changes the contents of normative race and gender identities adjust"

Sally Haslanger

"... gender is a performance with clearly punitive consequences. Discrete genders are part of what 'humanizes' individuals within contemporary culture; indeed, those who fail to do their gender right are regularly punished. Because there is neither an 'essence' that ender expresses or externalizes nor an objective ideal to which gender aspires; because gender is not a fact, the various acts of gender creates the idea of gender, and without those acts, there would be no gender at all. Gender is, thus, a construction that regularly conceals its genesis. The tacit collective agreement to perform, produce, and sustain discrete and polar genders as cultural fictions is obscured by the credibility of its own production. The authors of gender become entranced by their own fictions whereby the construction compels one's belief in its necessity and naturalness. The historical possibilities materialized through various corporeal styles are nothing other than those punitively regulated cultural fictions that are alternately embodied and disguised under duress"

Judith Butler

"If we use the paradigm of the bathroom as a limit of gender identification, we can measure the distance between binary gender schema and lived multiple gendered experiences (...) single-gender bathrooms are only for those who fit clearly into none category (male) or the other (female). Either we need open-access bathrooms or multigendered bathrooms, or we need wider parameters for gender identification"

Judith / Jack Halberstam