Construction of femininity regulations and political subject

Abstract

Understanding the current existence of gender inequalities as a citizenship deficit, this analysis links that deficit with the categories that are still functioning in the social imaginery and that build up the normative femininity. That femininity is indeed a compulsory model that reduces the attitudes and capabilities of women to all that is related to motherhood and the purported female essence thereof. The text analizes the construction of that model through the thinking of Rousseau, as one of the "fathers" of modern state, as well as through the doctrine emerging from Vatican. The sexual divison of labour is also closely connected to that normative femininity, shaping even the way we understand love, the way we exercise our citicenzhip and the unequal access to resources. We end up by addressing the aspects that should be considered to configure a (feminist) political subject capable to face up to this situation.