Being reasonable, telling stories
Abstract This article explores the relationship between reason and narrative in feminist theory, challenging the traditional binary opposition between theoretical argument and storytelling. Felski argues that feminism needs both rational argumentation and narrative knowledge, each having unique epistemological and political value. Narrative provides concreteness, emotional resonance, and experiential authenticity, while rational argument provides analyticity, universality, and critical distance. Genuine feminist theory should integrate rather than split these two modes of knowledge.
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