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Room for Thought: Symbolic Space and Narrative Experience

  • María Isabel Peña Aguado (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleRoom for Thought: Symbolic Space and Narrative Experience
ContributorMaría Isabel Peña Aguado (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH01
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractMaría Isabel Peña Aguado, in her article, “Room for Thought: Symbolic Space and Narrative Experience,” argues for women to develop their own narrative and symbolic space, while recognizing their differences. At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Christine de Pizan dreamed about a “city of ladies.” Almost five hundred years later, Virginia Woolf asserted women’s right to “a room of one’s own.” Both authors believed that the time had come for women to have at their disposal a space of their own. Space, having a place of one’s own, is not just a physical or geographical question. As the women of the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective pointed out, this space must be understood in its symbolic meaning. In their testimony, it quickly becomes obvious that the creation of such a space is essentially a question of voices, experiences, interrelations, and differences between women.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
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María Isabel Peña Aguado

(author)
Institute of Philosophy of the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile

María Isabel Peña Aguado is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile. She works on aesthetics, feminism and gender studies, as well as on political theory. Some selected publications are Das ‘schöne’ Denken: Der Ort des Weiblichen in Philosophie, Ästhetik und Literatur (2014), “Body Indeterminate: The Precariousness of the Body in Feminist Discourse” (2015), “El feminismo y sus caballos de Troya” (2016), Filósofas en con-texto (2016) and “Antígona, de mito androcéntrico a símbolo feminista. Una reflexión” (2021).