Anarchafeminism

Resumen del libro

How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to unpack the ways different forms of oppression intersect with one another: class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, to name only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor, or arche, explaining the oppression of women, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of women, and that, in order to fight that, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. Anarchism needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all femina, but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become the privilege of a few.

Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this new revolutionary vision, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few, but liberation for all living creatures from both capitalist exploitation and an androcentric politics of domination. Either all or none of us will be free.

Biografía del autor

Chiara Bottici se autodefine como una anarcafeminista. Es profesora asociada de Filosofía y directora de Estudios de Género en The New School for Social Research y en el Eugene Lang College de Nueva York. Es conocida por su trabajo sobre cómo las imágenes y la imaginación afectan a la política y por sus escritos experimentales feministas. Es autora de A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007), Imaginal Politics (2014) y Per tre miti, forse quattro (2016), que abordan la historia de la filosofía, la teoría crítica, el psicoanálisis y el feminismo. También ha coeditado The Anarchist Turn (2013).