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Nevertheless, it is possible to identify three main ways in which feminists have conceptualized power: as a resource to be (re distributed, as domination, and as empowerment.
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This level of interest is broadly speaking methodological in that Foucault sets out to investigate how a range of marginalized historical figures conceptualized power-as-war and investigated its effects.
Conceptualizing power from this standpoint can, according to Hartsock, "point beyond understandings of power as power over others" (Hartsock 1983, 12).
One explanation is that how we conceptualize power is shaped by the political and theoretical interests that we bring to the study of power (Lukes 1986, Said 1986).
Those who conceptualize power as a resource understand it as a positive social good that is currently unequally distributed amongst women and men.
Young's critique of the distributive model points toward an alternative way of conceptualizing power, one that understands power not as a resource or critical social good, but instead views it as a relation of domination.
Arguing in favor of this way of conceptualizing power, Hanna Pitkin notes that power is related etymologically to the French word pouvoir and the Latin potere, both of which mean to be able.
In fact, they conceptualized professional power as: "the ability of a nurse to apply his/her professional knowledge and skills and provide nursing care based on the nurse's diagnosis, in response to the needs of their clients".
This framework conceptualizes that power imbalances within the patriarchal societies create a gender social order that gives men rights and authority within the family/relationship over women.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Roosevelt utilized a "good neighbor policy" -- conceptualized today as "soft power" by U.S. foreign policy practitioners -- to curry favor in Latin America and win over its public.
Critical social theory has greatly influenced the development of CDA bringing together a wide variety of critical social theories including the way power is conceptualized [ 33].
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