feminish

The quote below is a little footnote to my post Another world is possible. Feminist nirvanas are not risible (c.f. Richard over at Happy Feminist’s in this thread). If I didn’t have a North Star you can bet I’d be stuck in the gutter.

…to deprive feminism of its utopias is to depoliticize it at a stroke: without a political vision to sustain it, feminist theory will hit a dead end. The result will be a loss of purpose, a perfect sense of futility, and the transformation of feminism into a self-perpetuating academic institution like any other. Deprived of narratives of liberation, feminist theory becomes anaemic, theoreticist and irrelevant to most women. The great virtue of narratives is that they come to an end: The Second Sex helps me to remember that the aim of feminism is to abolish itself.

Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1994) p.213

The quote below is a little footnote to my post Another world is possible. Feminist nirvanas are not risible (c.f. Richard over at Happy Feminist’s in this thread). If I didn’t have a North Star you can bet I’d be stuck in the gutter.

…to deprive feminism of its utopias is to depoliticize it at a stroke: without a political vision to sustain it, feminist theory will hit a dead end. The result will be a loss of purpose, a perfect sense of futility, and the transformation of feminism into a self-perpetuating academic institution like any other. Deprived of narratives of liberation, feminist theory becomes anaemic, theoreticist and irrelevant to most women. The great virtue of narratives is that they come to an end: The Second Sex helps me to remember that the aim of feminism is to abolish itself.

Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1994) p.213