Second-wave feminism fused modern universalism with postmodern binary critique inseparably.
Evidence
Feminism would rid the world of gender itself, bringing about an egalitarian utopia where all domination, based on the original domination of man over woman, would be eliminated, and we would all be simply human, with the commonality of humanity emphasized over its diversity. We see clearly here the seamless simultaneity, with the difference between them invisible, of dominant modern and emergent postmodern paradigms in second-wave feminism: its postmodern attack on the binary coincides with its modern humanist universalism. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 831
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off the book’s core thesis that sixties texts straddle modern and postmodern paradigms—here applied to feminism as an entire movement. — connects to: Radical feminism’s internal contradiction prefigured the modern-postmodern feminist split. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 852; Eliminating gender difference was the second wave’s modern arm, affirming womanhood its postmodern arm. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 855; The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The utopian attack on dualism pivoted into postmodern philosophy
#responds-to(0.82) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 685 - The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern
#expands(0.78) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 865 - Feminism is shaped by the same ideological sureties it challenges.
#complicates(0.78) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 555 - Anti-binary theories can align misogynists with radical feminists
#contradicts(0.75) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 629 - Postmodernism elevates modernist aberrations into its dominant cultural logic
#qualifies(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 216