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Woman, differences and multiplicity. Notes for an ethical approach to the subjective and bodily life of gender

This article posits an interrogation about the ways in which it is possible to keep using, for academic and political purposes, the category "women" from a perspective that collects the contributions of the gender performativity theory proposed by Judith Butler, and the philosophy of multiplicity by Gilles Deleuze. Instead of appealing to a transcendent and binary gender distribution, we opt for an ethical way of keeping the term "women" as a radically open category. Following the track of the present social life of the category gives visibility to a multiple field of social subjectivities which offer themselves to others from a position of enunciation and corporal existence as "woman".

Women; Multiplicity; Differences; Gender Performativity


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