#идентичность #опыт #феминизм
The post-positivist reformulation of “experience”... privileges understandings that emerge through the
processing of experience in the context of negotiated premises
about the world, over experience itself producing self-evident
knowledge (self-evident, however, only to the one who has “had”
the experience). This distinction is crucial for, if it is not the expe-
rience of, for example, sexual discrimination that “makes” one a
feminist, but rather, the paradigm through which one attempts to
understand acts of sexual discrimination, then it is not necessary
to have actually had the experience oneself in order to make the
identification “feminist”. If being a “feminist” is not a given fact
of a particular social (and/or biological) location – that is, being
designated “female” – but is, in Mohanty’s terms, an “achieve-
ment” – that is, something worked towards through a process of
analysis and interpretation – then two implications follow. First,
that not all women are feminists. Second, that feminism is some-
thing that is “achievable” by men.

Bhambra, Gurminder K. and Victoria Margree, 2010, “Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’,” Economic and Political Weekly, 45(15): 59–66.