The dissident gesture is reinscribed in a double movement in this book. First, as a critical rewriting of political theory from a feminist perspective, making explicit the ways in which theory itself and politics reproduce a "patriarchal modern" order.
It is from this perspective that the concepts of citizenship, romantic love, contract and democracy are revisited. And second, this dissident gesture is organized as a questioning of feminist approaches that, believing they are leaving the masculine-patriarchal order, adopt the ethics or politics of care.
Following the thread of discussions of contemporary gender agendas, the feminisms of affirmative action and its complication, and implication, with neoliberalism and elitist democracies will be addressed mainly. The thing disputed today in feminism is precisely in those concepts and in those practices of feminism. It is i...read more
