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Gender Sceptics and Feminist Politics. / Mikkola, Mari.
In: Res Publica, Vol. 13, No. 4, 12.2007, p. 361-380.

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Mikkola, M 2007, 'Gender Sceptics and Feminist Politics.', Res Publica, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 361-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-007-9040-0

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Mikkola, M. (2007). Gender Sceptics and Feminist Politics. Res Publica, 13(4), 361-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-007-9040-0

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Mikkola M. Gender Sceptics and Feminist Politics. Res Publica. 2007 Dec;13(4):361-380. doi: 10.1007/s11158-007-9040-0

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Mikkola, Mari. / Gender Sceptics and Feminist Politics. In: Res Publica. 2007 ; Vol. 13, No. 4. pp. 361-380.

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abstract = "Some feminist gender sceptics hold that the conditions for satisfying the concept woman cannot be discerned. This has been taken to suggest that (i) the efforts to fix feminism{\textquoteright}s scope are undermined because of confusion about the extension of the term {\textquoteleft}woman{\textquoteright}, and (ii) this confusion suggests that feminism cannot be organised around women because it is unclear who satisfies woman. Further, this supposedly threatens the effectiveness of feminist politics: feminist goals are said to become unachievable, if feminist politics lacks a clear subject matter. In this paper, I argue that such serious consequences do not follow from the gender sceptic position.",
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