What if the Body Animated the Soul?
Feminist Politics, Corporeality and Democracy
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This article explores the question of the body from a gender perspective. First, it reviews the philosophical evasion of the body, as well as its assimilation with the feminine. Second, it examines the capitalist negation of the body and discusses the possibility of understanding the differentiation between the logics of exploitation and expropriation through a previously posited differentiation among bodies. Finally, it proposes an analysis of the general exclusion of the body as a particular exclusion of the feminine and the popular, suggesting that the advent of bodies promulgated by the feminist movement, especially in the Latin American context, holds a democratic and emancipatory potential.
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