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Shame and the Future of Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jill Locke
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Abstract

Recent works have recovered the ethical and political value of shame, suggesting that if shame is felt for the right reasons, toxic forms of shame may be alleviated. Rereading Hannah Arendt's biography of the “conscious pariah,” Rahel Varnhagen, Locke concludes that a politics of shame does not have the radical potential its proponents seek. Access to a public world, not shaming those who shame us, catapults the shamed pariah into the practices of democratic citizenship.

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Feminist Interventions in Democratic Theory
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Democratic Theory , Fall 2007 , pp. 146 - 162
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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