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Rethinking Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Amy Allen
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Abstract

This paper argues that feminists have yet to develop a satisfactory account of power. Existing feminist accounts of power tend to have a one-sided emphasis either on power as domination or on power as empowerment. This conceptual one-sided’ ness must be overcome if feminists are to develop an account complex enough to illuminate women's diverse experiences with power. Such an account is sketched here.

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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 21 - 40
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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