Slavery and Freedom: Towards a Feminist Reading of Hegel
| Author | Sue Easton |
| Published date | 01 October 1985 |
| Date | 01 October 1985 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1985.tb00110.x |
| Subject Matter | Article |
22.
Richard
Minns
local authorities.
A
few authorities have established Enterprise Boards and
other local initiatives which could offer investment opportunities for
pension funds. Their purposes are:
-
econom
i
c
regene ra
t
i
on
;
-
viable investments;
-
encouraging more private sector financial investment;
-
more decentralisation of investment decision-making.
There are therefore important political issues involved in investment advice
for local authorities. With enormous restructuring and mergers within the
City underway, the issues
will
increase in importance as multi-functional
institutions emerge which are involved with almost every kind of financial
activity. Clearing banks like Barclays, merchant banks like Warburg, along
with stockbrokers and jobbers,
will
all become involved in larger
conglomerates which could make the potential conflicts
of
interest enormous.
A
future privatisation share issue could be advised, underwritten, dealt
in
and invested in by different sections of the same institution as corporate
financier, issuing house, market maker, stockbroker, and investment manager.
Research,information and monitoring is needed on all these issues. They
will
certainly not decline in importance.
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L
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R
(1980), Pension Funds and British Capitalism: The Ownership and
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G
and Minns,
R
(19841, 'Pension Fund Power', Marxism Toda
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Control of Shareholdings (London, Heinemann).
Miller,
F
and Minns,
R
(19811, 'Well Banked', New Statesman
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SLAVERY
AND
FREEDOM:
TOWARDS
A
FEMINIST READING
OF
HEGEL
Sue
Easton
In examining the origins
of
contemporary patriarchal attitudes and
practices, feminist theory has recently drawn attention to the public-
private distinction found in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau,
Hegel,
Mill
and Rawls (Moller Okin, 1980; Lloyd,
1981;
Elshtain,
1981;
Harding and Hintikka, 1983). Hegel's remarks in the Philosophy of Right on
the fundamental differences between men and women have been subject to
criticism because he appears to contrast men and women in terms of a distinc-
tion between rationality and feeling, which he uses to exclude women from the
public domain. Hegel's work has therefore been seen as committed to the
biological reductionism characteristic
of
Western political thought insofar
as he confines women to the private sphere on the basis of assumed naturai
characteristics (Moller Okin,
1980,
pp
6,
197,
283-4,
341;
Lloyd,
1981,
pp
31-34;
Elshtain,
1981,
pp 170-83).
A
number
of
aspects
of
this
interpretation need to be considered.
Does
Hegel's account of women and the
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