His perspective is most deeply flawed by his total erasure of women as political thinkers and social agents. Feminist struggles often also encompassed abolitionist/Black liberation movements, all of which are ignored in favor of highlighting men thinking about men. Democracies enlarged because people put the hard political work in to change them in the direction of greater inclusion. If we succeed this time in sustaining and enlarging democracy’s understanding of itself it will again be because women succeed as voters and thinkers to push us in that direction. It’s a man’s world is Trump’s theme song and we shouldn’t allow it to be ours.
This is an excellent point. I could make a quick list of women whose writing was more culturally influential than those Hunter shared. Why not Jane Addams instead of Dewey? Why not Betty Friedan vs. Maribel Morgan? Why not Martha Nussbaum?
His perspective is most deeply flawed by his total erasure of women as political thinkers and social agents. Feminist struggles often also encompassed abolitionist/Black liberation movements, all of which are ignored in favor of highlighting men thinking about men. Democracies enlarged because people put the hard political work in to change them in the direction of greater inclusion. If we succeed this time in sustaining and enlarging democracy’s understanding of itself it will again be because women succeed as voters and thinkers to push us in that direction. It’s a man’s world is Trump’s theme song and we shouldn’t allow it to be ours.
This is an excellent point. I could make a quick list of women whose writing was more culturally influential than those Hunter shared. Why not Jane Addams instead of Dewey? Why not Betty Friedan vs. Maribel Morgan? Why not Martha Nussbaum?