PHIL 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Radical Feminism, Special Relationship, Negative Liberty

• School: Trent University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2150
• Professor: Kyle Johannsen

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Radical feminists are very critical of protecting pornography under freedom of speech. Their view is that pornography expressed and reinforces patriarchy. Recall that on the radical feminist view, gender is a form of domination that masquerades as a et of natural differences. Masculine: rational, active, thought, reason, culture, power, objective, abstract. Feminine: irrational, passive, feeling, emotion, nature, sensitivity, subjective, contextualized. This list (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) f(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)es olse(cid:374)"s (cid:862)fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373) a(cid:374)d c(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al legal theo(cid:396)y(cid:863). Radical feminism - mackinnon: making a claim about gender, not about sex, not making a claim about the members of either category, gender is not breaking people up into social groups. Mackinnon argues that when one group dominates another, respect for negative freedom serves to reinforce that dominance. She understands protecting pornography under freedom of expression to be an instance of this. Most po(cid:396)(cid:374)og(cid:396)aphy does(cid:374)"t po(cid:396)t(cid:396)ay (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) the best light (submissive) Protecting pornography as a form of freedom of expression just reinforces patriarchal views .