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Hannah Arendt And Feminist Agency, Katherine N. Fulfer
Hannah Arendt And Feminist Agency, Katherine N. Fulfer
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My goal in this dissertation is to articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, with no opportunities to resist. This tendency is replicated in feminist responses to transnational contract pregnancy, the practice in which people travel across national borders to hire a woman to gestate an embryo.
I argue that the feminist literature on contract pregnancy is polarized and unable to resolve the problematic trend of …