Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author, among others, of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014); A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Uomini e stati. Percorsi di un’analogia(ETS, 2004), which was published in English as Men and States(Palgrave, 2009), and of the novel of novels Per tre miti, forse quattro(Manni, 2016).

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Anarchafeminism

It has become something of a commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, it is necessary to adopt a broad understanding of the more general mechanisms of domination, namely one that unpacks the ways in which different forms of oppression intersectwith one another. Yet, strikingly enough, in all this contemporary literature engaging with intersectionality, there is hardly any mention of a particular feminist tradition of the past that has been claiming exactly the same point for a very long time: anarchist feminism, or as I prefer to call it, “anarchafeminism.” The latter term has been introduced not only to feminize the concept of anarchism, but also to give visibility to a specifically feministstrand within the anarchist tradition that has largely been neglected, both within feminism and within the left more in general. In this talk, I will argue that anarchafeminism is a particularly timely form of feminism, because able to articulate a feminist position without turning the latter into yet another form of essentialism, or, ever worst, white privilege.

Conférence , 20 min

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