Recognition Discourse and Systemic Gender Injustice: An Essay in Honour of Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel

Authors

  • Robert Vosloo Stellenbosch University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/8250

Keywords:

Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel, recognition, justice, gender insensitivity, patriarchal power

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the South African Reformed ecclesiologist Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel’s reflections on gender insensitivity in church and society, this article engages with the notion of recognition, a concept that has found strong currency in many contemporary discourses. The first part of the article mentions the promise of recognition as a moral, political, and also theological category. In addition, it also interrogates the term in conversation with theorists who raise some critical concerns regarding accounts of recognition that are not adequately justice-sensitive. The second part of the article enters more directly into conversation with some of the writings of Plaatjies-Van Huffel, highlighting in the process her emphasis that the recognition of women should not be dislocated from a plea for a change in the dynamics of patriarchal power and structural gender injustice. The article concludes with a call to move beyond what is termed “cheap recognition.”

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Published

2021-07-08

How to Cite

Vosloo, Robert. 2021. “Recognition Discourse and Systemic Gender Injustice: An Essay in Honour of Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel”. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 47 (2):13 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/8250.
Received 2020-08-12
Accepted 2020-09-27
Published 2021-07-08