From Cultural Resistance to Patriarchal Reaction: Feminism And The Global Crisis in The 21st Century

Abstract

This text constitutes a reflection on politics, women, feminism and the future in the current global crisis. The civilizing crisis is total, universal and unstoppable. Here we try to sketch some ideas of what I think is really at stake: the definition of subject, person and rights, the idea of the future desirable society, and the foundations and regulation of social life, the concept of good life. In the context of an escalating global crisis and the growing feeling of being in transition to nowhere, the question of whether the arrival of this new order will resist our rights is vital, ethical and politically fundamental. This document tries to collaborate with the process of answering it. The order of the world to come is being built today, in increasingly adverse conditions for the rights and freedoms of women and it is important to anticipate the reflection on some of its foreseeable consequences.