From the Subjected Subject to the Vulnerable Subject: An Unfinished Discussion in Contemporary Spanish Feminisms.

This article focuses on the subject of feminism in the specific context of contemporary Spain. During the 1970s and 1980s, the feminist movement took as its subject the “woman-housewife-mother,” originally defined by the Franco regime, as a counterpoint from which to propose both an alternative iden...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 327 - 352
Autor principal: Martinez, Maria
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Winter2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=126256815&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 126256815
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00979740
        SIG
      jtl: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society
      issn: 00979740
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Winter2018
      vid: 43
      iid: 2
      pid: 415
      pub: University of Chicago Press
    artinfo:
      ui:
        126256815
        10.1086/693548
      ppf: 327
      ppct: 25
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
              db: hlh
              ui: 126256815
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              db: hlh
              ui: 126256815
      tig:
        atl: From the Subjected Subject to the Vulnerable Subject: An Unfinished Discussion in Contemporary Spanish Feminisms.
      aug:
        au: Martinez, Maria
        affil: Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and, Department of Sociology, University of the Basque Country
      su:
        Spain
        Feminism
        Feminists
        Social conditions of women
        Psychological vulnerability
        Subject (Philosophy)
      sug:
        subj:
          Feminism
          Feminists
          Social conditions of women
          Spain
          Psychological vulnerability
          Subject (Philosophy)
      ab: This article focuses on the subject of feminism in the specific context of contemporary Spain. During the 1970s and 1980s, the feminist movement took as its subject the “woman-housewife-mother,” originally defined by the Franco regime, as a counterpoint from which to propose both an alternative identity for women and a collective identity for the movement. Starting at the end of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, lesbian-feminists, transgender people, young activists, and queer feminists critiqued the focus on the woman-housewife-mother as the singular subject of feminism. Despite those criticisms, this article—which is drawn from two sociological research projects—notes that some feminists are proposing a new unitary subject of feminism: the vulnerable subject. These feminisms construct this subject using a very narrow conception of vulnerability; vulnerability is exclusively exposure to violence and is equated with femininity. The text concludes with a reflection on how a more open, ambivalent, and ambiguous conception of vulnerability may allow us to rethink the subject of feminism, not by denying vulnerability but by taking it as its condition of possibility.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N