If there is a world in which patriarchy is entrenched more than in any other, where it resists almost unscathed the attacks of feminism, that is the world of emotions and feelings, that of subjectivity. That imaginary and symbolic territory that settles in the deepest, in what is not said but felt, in that of whose power we are not aware, although, finally, it is what makes us act in one way or another.

This volume, edited by Almudena Hernando, collects five articles on the construction of gender subjectivities. The first two are devoted to cinema and children's literature, understood as devices for the reproduction of inequality insofar as they place male characters, desires and needs at the center. The last two chapters focus on the conflicts between subjectivities created as masculine and feminine, showing that the different expectations of identity and relationship with which we grow up limit our potential for understanding and meeting.

Hernando's article delves into the historical foundations of these conflicting subjectivities, analyzing their relationship with individualism, rationalism, colonialism, and capitalism. Patriarchy would basically consist of a logical order that idealizes reason and denies the importance of emotion and bonds. Therefore, we can only face it by valuing ourselves as relational and interdependent beings, building a new truth of what we are and what we want.