The gender perspective is today one of the most useful synthetic formulas for talking about progress, according to feminist conceptions, in the relationship between women and men.
This new paradigm is also beneficial when addressing the links between development and democracy, or when reflecting on the circumstances of various historical subjects who have been excluded from the benefits of modernity, subjected to peculiar forms of exploitation, oppression and marginalization.
These new subjects have unveiled numerous forms of alienation and struggle to eliminate the practices, relationships, and culture that generate oppression and misery. They dramatically face adversity and put in enormous vital efforts to convince, to be heard and to dialogue. Women, indigenous peoples, urban and rural workers, environmentalists and environmentalists have said enough.
Thus, the criticism of modernity today is defined by diversity in the face of exclusion.
This book explores in three sections — one dedicated to the gender perspective, with its criticism of patriarchy and power relations; another on human development and one more on democracy, with the demand to empower citizens — equitable, progressive and just development in pursuit of equality between women and men, the improvement of living conditions, the priority of human needs, the protection and development of nature in the face of its destruction and the quality of life, as an indispensable basis. Gender and feminism are therefore a dumbbell to understand reality.
Thanks to the support of the Marcela Lagarde Chair, the teacher Viviane Deidre Rodríguez updated the figures included in this edition, based on which, in 1996, she published in Madrid the publishing house hours and hours, and which has been reprinted on numerous occasions.