Patterns of Dissonance by Braidotti Rosi

Author:Braidotti, Rosi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley

Woman is other – excluded, alienated, denied, a blank screen onto which man projects his anguished terror of death, his contempt for, and fear of, all that is pre-rational and corporeal.

On the positive side, the specificity of women’s political struggles has been symbolized in the movement’s choice of separatism, which is a quite unambiguous gesture of rejection and separation. It turned the women’s movement into a place of elaboration of a political and theoretical identity proper to women. For the first time in the long history of their struggle, women’s voice has not been derivative, but autonomous and thus subversive. Taking as their starting point an analysis of women’s experience, that is, feminine lived corpor(e)ality, whether it be oppression or the different approaches to desire and pleasure in sexuality, radical feminism led to the critique of power-formations in the perspective of gender, and of sexual difference.

The ‘problem without a name’, as Betty Friedan called it in the sixties, has gradually been transformed into a movement without an ideology, and against all ideologies. As Françoise Collin puts it:

The women’s movement is not an ideology which, suitably defined and elaborated, would formulate an individual and social norm of action, resting on an audacious new conception of woman, leading towards a feminist society .. . The women’s movement is in the first instance a resistance to the One, in favour of the polymorphous springing emergence of women’s desires and words in their unforeseeable diversity and differences.25

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