How not to make the necessary affirmative feminist politics only and always a claim for reified identities around the signifier "woman-mother"? In other words, how to be feminists without being "women", that is, how to be feminists beyond the patriarchal prescription of "being a woman". How then to get out of the paradox of being a woman? It is in the face of this paradox that the feminist politics of interruption rather than withdrawal propose a deep questioning of the modern mode of politics. This feminism does not seek inclusion, nor recognition. This feminism of interruption implies a double movement, first, it judges the elements that modern women have been constructed: these are the sentimental family, the sexual contract and the idea of a civic mother.
Consequently, it will not be an act of affirmative aggregation. And second, it displaces the feminist thesis of flight t...read more