Article 7: Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body
Article 7: Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of
Feminine Body
Iris Marion Young
(1949 - 2006) who is a philosopher and professor
of Political Science at the University of
Chicago since 2000 born 1949 in New York City. She called from colleague
“one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century”.
She researched about democratic theory, theories of justice, democracy and
difference, ethics and international affairs, continental
political theory and feminist theory. Associate Professor
Patchen Markell who is one of the colleagues of Young said, “She was
absolutely unsurpassed in her ability to combine a very high level of
philosophical analysis with relevance to contemporary political issues, and to
the experiences of women and men who cared about social injustice.” “When
Iris came to the University she had already established herself as one of the
most important feminist thinkers in the world,” (The University of
Chicago News Office, 2006).
Image 1: “U. of C.
professor had passion for social justice” http://www
news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060802.young.shtml
The words were
chosen can be understood by the general audience. Because she generally avoids using specific terms.
The paper
starts with the investigation of Erwin Straus. This research about “remarkable
difference between the manner of throwing of the two sexes” explains the
distinction between young girls and young boys. Also, she states that these
differences are biological and we cannot define as some exact differences.
In today’s
world, although men and women have equal rights in front of the courts, some people
are still thinking that men stronger than women. But this opinion is losing
importance day by day with the rising amount of educated people. Instead of the
society which is thought men dominant in
life, the society which thinks all
genders equal (except biological difference) are being grown.
‘’Straus explains the difference in style of throwing by referring to a
“feminine attitude” in relation to the world and to space. The difference for
him is biologically based, but he denies that it is specifically anatomical.
Girls throw in a way different from boys because girls are “feminine” (Young, 1990, p. 28). In contrast to women’s men’s can protect
themselves from obscurely incidents so, we cannot define this differences as a
bad way. These behaviours are not related to weaknesses of women, they are just
related to different anatomical systems between men and women.
‘’In its immanence and inhibition, feminine spatial existence is positioned
by a system of coordinates that does not have its origin in a woman’s own
intentional capacities. The tendency for the feminine body to remain partly
immobile in the performance of a task that requires the movement of the whole
body illustrates this characteristic of feminine bodily existence as rooted in
place. Likewise does the tendency of women to wait for an object to come within
their immediate bodily field, rather than move out toward it’’ (Young, 1990, p.
41). When we consider all of these information, science explains
everything about difference between women and men acts. It is just related to
women being.
Questions:
1. What can do for preventing that people think men
powerful than women?
2. Which part of life women more powerful than men? Resistance
to pain?
References:
The University of Chicago News
Office, (2006), Josh Schonwald,. Available at:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060802.young.shtml (Accessed
date: 14 November 2017)
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