Engendered Bodies: Metaphors in Feminism

Abstract

In the late 60s Western feminism was based on a uniform and homogeneous feminine identity, the result of a social structure now taken as a basis for a critical redefinition of the positions of the sexed bodies. There were different conditionings to be that way: the social context, the logic of construction of social problems, the influence of different theorisations about other social positions and conflicts and the traditional dualist way of thinking, among others. Nevertheless, the progressive development of differences and the influence of poststructuralisms are leading to the deconstruction of the unilateral vision of the subject’s construction and constitution. Within this background, the question to be faced is if we deconstruct ‘woman’ who is the subject/object/agent for feminism?

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