Marcela Lagarde's feminist work has manifested itself in many different ways, both in the political sphere and in the academic and teaching spheres. His workshop work is perhaps the space in which the transformative action of his word has been most immediately noticed. Aimed at women, their workshops were developed around questions that sought to awaken self-knowledge, reflection on who they are, who they can become, how they can achieve it, what and how they want to love women: central issues for life and for life in society, that is, politics.

From the colloquium and sustained exchange with these women, the author distilled a series of feminist keys, keys to open doors or windows, which revolve around female freedom and concern self-esteem, leadership, love, power and autonomy.

By addressing autonomy from a historical perspective, Lagarde invites us to deconstruct the idea of the female social subject as a dependent entity and work for the construction of positive powers for women, powers that also start from a real, not marginal, autonomy, from which alliances can be formed to face the global order of savage capitalism or patriarchal neoliberalism. exclusionary, militaristic, exploitative and oppressor of people and peoples, alienating and predatory of the world.

Readers will find in this book two fundamental keys to dismantle that order and to think, from feminism, in an alternative paradigm.

This is the third book in the series Feminist Keys, which will have a total of four titles. The previous Keys were: Feminist keys for negotiation in love, Feminist keys for women's self-esteem, and soon Feminist keys for endearing leaderships will be published. All these books are the product of the popular workshops that Marcela Lagarde gave to groups of women in different parts of the world. Although this specific book has a more theoretical and conceptual dimension than the previous ones, it is treated at a level that allows a wide audience to understand it. The book is divided into three large parts throughout which Lagarde deals with various issues related to the construction of autonomy for women: self-identity, self-sufficiency, construction of the subject, deconstruction of motherhood, sisterhood; Lagarde also analyzes the counterpart, that is, practices that prevent the construction of autonomy: the power of domination, and prejudices such as: sexism, machismo, misogyny, classism, etc.