La differenza sessuale: autonomia simbolica del femminile o trappola identitaria?
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Olivia Guaraldo
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/85
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 16-31 File size 171 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2026-085002
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This article aims to outline key moments in feminist thought, from the First Wave through the Second Wave and its later theoretical developments in sexual difference feminism. It then problematizes the reception of this tradition by subsequent approaches that, by misreading its theoretical and political radicalism, reduce it to an ‘identitybased’ or ‘essentialist’ position. The essay argues that such reductive views reflect patriarchal biases, according to which difference is understood solely as a social construct produced by discursive regimes and power hierarchies. Against this view, sexual difference feminism affirms sexual difference as central to thinking the human in its embodied condition. This perspective rejects abstract, disembodied models of subjectivity and calls for a rethinking of women’s freedom grounded in an irreducible, yet still undertheorized, sexual difference.
Keywords: Sexual difference, feminist theory, phallogocentrism, women’s freedom
Olivia Guaraldo, La differenza sessuale: autonomia simbolica del femminile o trappola identitaria? in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 85/2026, pp 16-31, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2026-085002