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Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory Marilyn Frye
Publisher: Ten Speed Press

To comment again on the concept of “the reality of reality”, this reminds me of an essay by feminist theorist Marilyn Frye, “To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality. Jan 30, 2012 - Her-story can teach us a lot about how a colonial past still haunts our nation's imagination and shapes our current political realities. If we are going to have the gall to call ourselves pacifists, we have to understand that the baseline of pacifist theory in the tradition of MLK and Gandhi that we align with so boldly– arrogantly, I'd say, in most cases, given that the majority of this .. Dec 10, 2012 - This essay therefore mostly focuses on pragmatics. Aug 1, 2013 - From feminist theory, for example, is analyzed the inbetweeness status of translation, rejecting the bipolarity between the source text and target text, as well as the original and the copy. Jan 20, 2013 - Neurofeminism is a collection of eleven essays on the critical relationship between feminist theory and neuroscience. She argues, “The reality of the disparity of men's and women's personal political power is evident in the long period of what might be called tutelage that women experienced as authors” (p. Jan 21, 2014 - The authors' theoretical inquiries invite consideration of the following questions: what meaning, if any, might a feminist imagination or approach have in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644-1911) eras, early and late Republican China (1911-1948), and beyond? Feminist neuroscience gathers a diverse crowd; the authors (including volume In her chapter 'The Politics of Pictured Reality: Locating the Object from Nowhere in fMRI' Letitia Meynell criticizes the methodological over-reliance on machinery for observation and analysis. Intrigued yet unsettled by the work of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, Travis situates the lived realities of the disordered body within the space of a photographic archive in order to resist conventional ways of representing the body. This last have been integrated with the visual arts, firstly as an indispensable tool for interpreting works of art produced in different geographical or cultural environment, and secondly as a “formal” element essential for the artefacts that represent the artistic, social, anthropological or political realities. Nov 15, 2013 - Eclectic in their themes and theoretical stances, the three pieces in this first section ask what it means to produce feminist knowledge in the context of competing claims, and they converge on the point that institutional spaces of knowledge .