Feminism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches feminism through the distinction between femininity and feminism. Femininity is as old as the species. Feminism is a more recent movement, whose embryonic forms he locates in Molière, followed by the struggles of the nineteenth century and the Commune1. He separates male and female, which are biological determinations, from man and woman, which are roles assigned by history. In his view, millennia of prescription have nevertheless produced a real femininity, which the "feminism of the privileged" would like to erase. He concludes that femininity and feminism are different but compatible1. On several occasions he criticizes a bourgeois feminism that sets man against woman without speaking of classes2. Against this feminism he sets the condition of Malian women and the figure of Susanna in Mozart3, or else the sacrifice of the Red Army4. Following Clouscard, he links this feminism to the "societal" agenda that blocks social progress, and prefers a class feminism to it5. He also draws on Wagner, for whom the "true feminine" brings liberation, and on Hegel's formula that makes femininity the "eternal irony of the community"64.

1. 1Le féminisme des privilégiés, censure puritaine de la féminité - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022
2. 2#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020
3. 3Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021
4. 410#1 L’éternelle ironie de la communauté22 Sept 2021
5. 5Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 229 Jan 2012
6. 69 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021

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