Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships between Women and Men | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

“Caring labor” is generally seen as work directed at other people, and it always involves a certain labor of interpretation, empathy, and understanding.

The importance of these shared stories is great, because it is through them that we obtain answers to existential questions. What is a ‘real’ man or a ‘real’ woman? What should their relationship be? What is the place and significance of career and parenthood, and does that differ for men and women? What should our attitude to authority be? How do

How is it, then, that between the sexes this reciprocity has not been put forward, that one of the terms has been asserted as the only essential one, denying any relativity in regard to its correlative, defining the latter as pure alterity? Why do women not contest male sovereignty?

A participant whose concern is her relationship with her employer can recognize, in another participant's discussion of his problems with his mother, the same existential structure that is at the source of her own problem. Thus The Forum leader regularly exhorts participants to "listen from your own concerns."

Radical Hermeneutics was also something of a manifesto for a philosophy that mattered. The introduction was titled “Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty”; the final chapter, “Openness to Mystery.” This was a postmodernism with philosophical chops and a religious heartbeat.

The increasingly interpretive, Theoretical analysis of discourses found within Social Justice approaches is a direct reflection of the radical reduction of social injustice.