Definition and Power: Toward Authority without Privilege
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 8 (4) , 1-34
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00273.x
Abstract
Feminists have urged women to take semantic authority. I explain what such authority is, how it depends upon community recognition, and how it differs from privilege and from authority as usually conceived under patriarchy. Understanding its nature and limits is an important part of attaining it. Understanding the role of community explains why separatism is the logical conclusion of this project and why separatism is valuable even to those who do not separate.Keywords
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