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Winnicott, Participation and Gender

Gal Gerson

School of Political Sciences - Division of Government and Political Theory, The University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel.galgerson{at}yahoo.com

Winnicott’s work has been both criticized and commended by feminists: it was attacked for normalizing women’s traditional role, but praised for conceptualizing relationships which are free of the I-other oppositions. In the picture painted by his advocates, Winnicott appears as a participationist who values the transformative qualities of social interaction and public deliberation. I argue that, while Winnicott does hold participation up as an ideal, he relegates other pursuits to subsidiary roles that are distanced from participation, and so divides the world into two realms that complement and exclude each other. His work is therefore at odds with feminism’s project of overcoming the sphere division.

Key Words: binaries • liberty • transitional space

Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 561-581 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353504046872
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