Monday, October 17, 2016
Transcendental Perspective of the Feminist Vantage Point
existence\nThe 2007 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Doris Lessing, crowned as the epicist of the fe priapic experience (nobelprize.org) by the Noble Awarding Committee, on August 13, 2001, in her language at Edinburghs Consignia Theatre tell:\nI find myself progressively shocked at the uncaring and automatic rubbishing of men which is in a flash so part of our socialization that it is hardly even noticed, she told the audience.\nThe nearly stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman sight rubbish the nicest, kindest and most profound man and no-one protests.\nWe meet many a(prenominal) a(prenominal) wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is adventure to men?\nWhy did this have to be at the be of men? (news.bbc.co.uk)\nDoris Lessing, thus, defended men against what she called the unthoughtful and automatic rubbishing by womens liberationists (news.bbc.co.uk). yet Doris Lessing is not only intellect who did this. A growing residential area of thinkers is be ing marked with equivalent concern. We see, to fight back (news.bbc.co.uk) of which Lessing was concerned, in like manner feminist scholarly enterprises, male counter enterprise has already started its journey. At Wagner College in bran-new York, a new illuminate named Male Studies has been launched receiving the support of many well-known scholars, including Lionel Tiger, Ph.D., Rutgers Universitys Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, and Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D., author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided womens liberation movement Is Harming Our Young Men (forbes.com). overly all innocent reason resulting birth of new discipline, populate love to take it as a reaction against feminist scholarship. Professor Tiger explains, A set of feminist argument is only when irritating and other reasons why believers record we need this new schoolman discipline. The culprit, said Tiger, is feminism: a well-meaning, highly successful, very vibrant denigration of malen ess as a force, as a phenomenon. (insidehighered.com). So, Male studies pro...
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