Demokrasinin Cinsiyeti

Whether liberal or republican, the basis of the understandings of democracy that have left their mark on this century is male. The concepts of "human" and "individual", which are presented as gender-free, refer to men both in theory and in practice. Feminism has challenged this deception; He questioned the boundaries between the public sphere, which is considered the domain of politics, and the private sphere, which is excluded from politics. With his claim that "the private is political", he made a very important contribution to the expansion of the field of democracy, at least at the theoretical level.

But where did it get in practice? Can democracy be transformed to include women in terms of gender? Anne Phillips demonstrates how different understandings of democracy and alternative policies position women. He discusses the tension between the concepts of formal equality and social equality, representation and direct participation. “We have to find a new political language that can recognize heterogeneity and difference, but that does not surrender to an essentialism that defines each of us in only one aspect,” he says.



Number of Pages: 216

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Printing Year: 1995

Number of Pages: 216

Language Turkish