Feministična krivda ali ambivalentnost feminizma do lepotnih praks : diplomsko delo

Otorepec, Klara (author), Razpotnik, Špela (mentor), Tašner, Veronika (comentor)

Namen diplomskega dela je raziskati različne dejavnike, ki sooblikujejo in tvorijo koncept feministične krivde. Tako poimenujem občutek nelagodja, ki nastopi kot odziv na težave pri uveljavljanju feminističnih načel v vsakodnevnem življenju v odnosu do (ne)prakticiranja lepotnih praks oziroma kot razpetost med feministično ideologijo in patriarhalno družbeno ureditvijo. V teoretičnem delu raziskujem, kako pritisk k normativni ženskosti kot focaultovski disciplinirajoči projekt sodobne družbe, ženskost kot sestavni del konstrukcije posamezničinega sebstva, zvezanost te konstrukcije s potrošniškimi navadami v obdobju poznega kapitalizma in krivda kot temeljna oblika ženskega občutenja lastne pozicije in realnosti (koncept ženske želje in ženskega narcisizma) otežujejo uresničevanje feminističnih prepričanj. Ob tem ugotavljam, da dodatno oviro predstavljajo tudi dominantne feministične perspektive, ki onemogočajo kolektivno soočenje s problemom feministične krivde in ki ustvarjajo lastne normativne zahteve o feministični estetiki, ki postaja način vrednotenja stopnje feminizma pri posameznicah. To odvrača pozornost od samega sistema, ki ustvarja ambivalentne pozicije, in hromi širše feministično delovanje. Na podlagi tega ugotavljam, da je v izogib dogmatizmu feministična prepričanja bolje uporabiti kot način razumevanja kompleksnosti sistema in kulture, kot oprijemališča za nadaljnjo razpravo in ne kot točko nenehne samokritike in občutenja feministične nedoslednosti, saj koncept ženskosti v patriarhalni družbi feminizem vsakič znova postavi v ambivalentnost do samega sebe

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: feminizem, lepota, ženskost
• Work type: Undergraduate thesis
• Typology: 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: [K. Otorepec]
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: 123 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-71870
• UDC: 305(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10637129
• Publication date in RUL: 29.07.2015

OTOREPEC, Klara, 2015, Feministična krivda ali ambivalentnost feminizma do lepotnih praks : diplomsko delo [online]. Bachelor’s thesis. K. Otorepec. [Accessed 17 May 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=71870

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Feminist guilt or the ambivalency of feminism towards beauty practices

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to research different factors that help shape and form the concept of feminist guilt. This is how I name the discomfort that occurs as a response to difficulties in exercising feminist principles in daily life in relation to (non)practising beauty practices or as a dichotomy between feminist ideology and patriarchal social order. The theoretical focus explores how the pressure of normative femininity as a Foucauldian disciplinary project of contemporary society, femininity as an integral part of construction of one’s self, the connection of the latter with consumer habits in the period of late capitalism and guilt as a basic form of female experience of her own position and reality (the concept of female desire and female narcissism) are hindering the exercise of feminist beliefs. I also note that the dominant feminist perspectives represent an additional obstacle, making it impossible to collectively tackle the problem of feminist guilt, while generating their own normative feminist aesthetic requirements, which are becoming the means of assessing one’s feminism. This diverts the attention from the very system that creates these given ambivalent positions and which is paralyzing broader feminist action. On this basis, I conclude that in order to avoid dogmatism, it is better to use feminist beliefs as a way of understanding the complexity of the system and culture, as footholds for further discussion and not as a point of constant self-criticism and feeling of feminist inconsistency, since the concept of femininity always places feminism in ambivalence with itself in the patriarchal society.

• Keywords: feminism