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Meta: Doctor Who, Feminism and Families
Jul. 25th, 2012 09:11 amThis meta brought to you by Dr. Fannishliss and her dissertation, ie the hobbyhorse I just keep getting back on.
I come at this from a perspective of many years spent as an academic feminist. On the one hand, the idea of defining a woman entirely by her family is one thing feminism has tried to combat. But the other side of that same coin is the idea that any heroic person has to cut off their connections to family in order to fully individuate. So that's what I want to talk about (yes the same old academic feminist problem that has haunted me since 1994!).
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I come at this from a perspective of many years spent as an academic feminist. On the one hand, the idea of defining a woman entirely by her family is one thing feminism has tried to combat. But the other side of that same coin is the idea that any heroic person has to cut off their connections to family in order to fully individuate. So that's what I want to talk about (yes the same old academic feminist problem that has haunted me since 1994!).
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