Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Transcendental Perspective of the Feminist Vantage Point
Introduction\nThe 2007 Nobel moolah Winner in books Doris Lessing, crowned as the epicist of the effeminate experience (nobelprize.org) by the terrific Awarding Committee, on alarming 13, 2001, in her speech at Edinburghs Consignia Theatre say:\nI find myself increasingly shock at the unthinking and self-regulating snipeing of hands which is now so part of our culture that it is barely even noticed, she told the audience.\nThe most stupid, ill-educated and mean wo firearm can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no-one protests.\nWe have many wonderful, clever, stringy wo workforce everywhere, but what is happening to men?\nWhy did this have to be at the cost of men? (news.bbc.co.uk)\nDoris Lessing, thus, defended men against what she c bothed the unthinking and mechanical rubbishing by womens liberationists (news.bbc.co.uk). But Doris Lessing is not only thinker who did this. A growing community of thinkers is beingness marked with similar concern. We see, to match back (news.bbc.co.uk) of which Lessing was concerned, besides womens rightist scholarly enterprises, male answer enterprise has already started its journey. At Wagner College in New York, a new discipline named potent Studies has been launched receiving the support of many well-known(a) scholars, including Lionel Tiger, Ph.D., Rutgers Universitys Charles Darwin prof of Anthropology, and Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D., author of The struggle Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our puppylike Men (forbes.com). Besides all innocent grounds resulting nascency of new discipline, people have it off to take it as a reaction against feminist scholarship. Professor Tiger explains, A lot of feminist argument is just irritating and some other reasons why believers say we bespeak this new academic discipline. The culprit, said Tiger, is feminism: a well-meaning, exceedingly successful, very colorful defamation of maleness as a force, as a phenomenon. (ins idehighered.com). So, male studies pro...
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