Abstract:
Ressentiment and power: some reflections on feminist practices. In the past twenty years or so, the period during which feminists have achieved a degree of success in the bureaucracy, educational institutions, and some of the professions, a notable shift has occurred in feminist discursive and non-discursive practices. What began as an attempt to achieve equal power, and to identify and redress injustices, within institutions is now becoming something different. A new configuration of power/knowledge is emerging in which, rather than criticising discriminatory practices and sexist discourses, there is a tendency to condemn – as male, as patriarchal, as evil – individuals and types of individuals, as well as language, culture, discourse and sexuality. At the same time there is a tendency to use institutional forms of power to gain the kind of power that would enable this condemnation to acquire some political force.
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