The answer, in large well-argued introduction of feminism and feminist philosophy in philosophy and four chapters, is well represented in the title of his study that seems to herald the title of the book of Butler: there are differences, not bodies that count. Differences that can not be circumvented, because the human being is at stake. In the foreword to the A. presents a guide that allows to distinguish impacts multiplicity of concepts and guidelines that, after only a few decades, flapping under the common term "feminist philosophy", keeping in mind the profound differences between the Anglo-American feminism and the European continental Europe.
Attention to the corporeality constitutes' the single thread that holds together the different positions of feminism in strong disagreement with the concept of moral subjectivity disembodied typical deirilluminismo. " The discussion is bounded chronologically starting from the seventies, leaving the background stars of early feminism as Simone de Beauvoir. Just in the background, because the Russian do not forget to replace the well-known statement of Beauvoir: "One is not born but becomes one" with another: "I was born a woman, but I have yet to become that woman who are by nature".
The book gives voice to those representatives of the various feminist philosophies that address the following nodes theoretical: 1) female beauty: a political place or space of desire? 2) Gender Theory: get rid of the difference, and 3) Bringing sex and gender: a sense of difference ', 4) Beyond the myth of Alena: maternal body and hospitality of the' different '.
Is about to bring back the Russian feminist discourse to a level of practical politics to that of general philosophy and then on the centrality of the body in which every anthropological discourse. 11 issue of the differences does not refer to a struggle for power, but fundamental problems exquisitely our human condition, the reasons for our being in the world and the meaning of our lives.
Luca Monterone
STUDI CATTOLICI