Abstract

BOLLA, Luisina. Subjected Subjects / Sexed Subjects: Philosophical Contributions of French Materialist Feminism on Body, Materiality and Power. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2022, vol.48, n.2, pp.61-70.  Epub Dec 01, 2022. ISSN 1852-7353.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36446/rlf2022333.

This article shows the contributions of French materialist feminism to the approach of subjection/subjectivation processes. It focuses on the categories of political anatomy and somatic marking formulated in the 1970s by Nicole-Claude Mathieu and Colette Guillaumin, respectively, as the basis for an original analysis linking subjectivation, corporeality, and relations of production. We show that the materialist feminist perspective considers the sex-gender dimension, absent in the French philosophies of the time, for which a counterpoint with Foucault and Bourdieu is presented. We argue that materialist feminism lays the foundations for a critical mate- rialism that avoids both somatophobia -often attributed to post-structuralist feminisms- and biologicism -often present in orthodox Marxist feminist approaches-.

Keywords : subject; materialist feminism; political anatomy; somatic mark; French philosophy; critical materialism.

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