The nature of the right : a feminist analysis of order patterns / edited by Gill Seidel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seidel, Gill.

Institut national de la langue française (France). Unité de recherche Lexicologie et textes politiques.

Université Laval. Laboratoire d'études politiques et administratives.

Università di Bari. Gruppo italiano di lessicologia dei testi politici.

Series:

Critical theory ; v. 6.

Critical theory ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Congresses.

Discourse analysis.

Sexism in language--Congresses.

Sexism in language.

Feminism--Congresses.

Feminism.

Right and left (Political science)--Congresses.

Right and left (Political science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship. The eleven papers share a common perspective: a critique of the ideology of 'natural difference' as the basis for oppression of the dominated group. In a radical feminist analysis, the relation of domination between the sexes is seen as central to the projects of the right, in which the constructions of 'nations', 'races' and 'gender' present variations in time and space. In its linking of oppressions, this books makes an important and timely contribution to femin

Contents:

THE NATURE OF THE RIGHT A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF ORDER PATTERNS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; Notes; Right-wing discourse and power: exclusions and resistance; The specificity of women's oppression: the 'minority group' is constructed as a 'natural' group; Right-wing discourse: a discourse of order grounded in 'nature'; Discourse and practices of 'nature' on the 'left'; Notes; References; Sexism, a Right-wing constant of any discourse: a theoretical note

Some socio-enunciative characteristics of scientific texts concerning the sexesCharacteristics of lexical terms naming relationships between the sexes; Manipulation of the categories of the animated and the non-animated; MINORITY ENUNCIATION; MAJORITY ENUNCIATION; First type of manipulation; Inverted manipulation of the categories of the animated and the non-animated; Immunity of the dominant group; Correlative shifting of violence toward the symbolic field; Generalized guilt of the dominated group; The other's speech; Note; References

Discourse strategies - power and resistance: a socio-enunciative approach1. A dual theoretical perspective; 2. Logical connectors and argument strategies; 3. Enunciator/utterance relationships; 4. The concept of work (labor); 5. The impersonal pronoun ""on"" (one); Notes; Translator's note; References; The discourse on demographic 'reproduction' as a mode of appropriation of women; 1. An explicit discourse of law and order; the ""duty of procreation"" (1945-1970); I.I. In support of ""exploitation in the best sense of the term""; 1.2. Control of fertility

1.2.1. Control in the ""overseas territories""1.2.2. Control in France: the ""Hitlerian example""; 1.2.3. For non-limited and unpaid work for women; 1.3. Women as pawns in the conflicts between advocates and opponents of contraception; 1.4. The naturalist approach. The ""compressibility"" of women.; 2. Confronted with the ""emancipation of women"", the discourse of law and order renews itself (post 1970); 2.1. Political resistance and the theories of oppression; 2.2. Liberal viewpoints: ""The de facto association between our science and various powers""; 2.3. A subjective reproduction

2.4. For a strengthening of the appropriation of women: the ""decline"" of the birthrateNotes; References; Corpus; 'Nation' and 'family' in the British media reporting of the Talklands conflict'; The construction of 'Britishness' in the emergency debate; Sun representations; The family: the microcosm of the nation; Conclusion; Notes; References; Women against 'the Nation': Representations of Greenham Common in the British press; Notes; References; Antifeminism and the British and American New Rights; References; Sexism and racism; The dichotomy between the sexes: foundation for the exclusion

The discourse of biopolitics

Notes:

Papers presented at a symposium organized by the Unite de recherche Lexicologie et textes politiques, Saint-Cloud, France, the Laboratoire d'etudes administratives et politiques of the University of Laval, Quebec, Canada, and the Gruppo italiano di lessicologia dei testi politici of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bari, Italy.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1-283-35886-7

9786613358868

90-272-7872-5

OCLC:

769190393