BODIES IN PLURAL: TOWARDS AN ANARCHAFEMINIST MANIFESTO

Authors

  • Maíra Marcondes Moreira PUC Minas
  • Chiara Bottici

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p290-316

Keywords:

anarchism, feminism, imaginal, intersectionality, Marxism, materialism, Spinoza.

Abstract

In the last few years, it has become a common place to state that domination
takes place through a multiplicity of axes, where gender, class, race, and
sexuality intersect with one another. While a lot of insightful empirical
studies have been developed based on intersectionality, they are rarely linked
to the anarchist tradition that preceded them. In this article, I would like to
approach this point showing the usefulness but also the limits of the notion
of intersectionality, so as to understand the mechanisms of domination and then debate on the need of an anarchafeminist research program. Secondly,
I will try to provide the philosophical framework for such an enterprise by
arguing that it is in a Spinozist ontology of the transindividual that we can
best find the conceptual resources for thinking about the plural nature of
women’s bodies and thus of their oppression. This will allow me to attempt
to approach the issue “what it means to be a woman” in pluralistic terms
and thus also defend a specifically feminist form of anarchism. Finally, I
will go back to the anarchafeminist tradition in order to demonstrate why,
nowadays, it is the best possible ally of feminism in the pursuit of a critical
theory of society.

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Author Biography

Chiara Bottici

Professora associada de Filosofia na The New School for Social Research, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos.

Published

2020-04-13

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Seção Aberta / Open Section / Sección Abierta