Viola Carofalo
Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale (vcarofalo@unior.it; ORCID: 0000-0002- 5849-3894).
Philosophy of Action, Abstraction, and Experience in Beauvoir and Fraser: A Comparative Materialist-Feminist Reading
Abstract: In this text, we will compare the philosophies of action of de Beauvoir and Fraser. Both philosophies are marked by a tendency to generalize the demands of specific categories of exploited/marginalized subjects. However, this generalization is politically effective and ethically sound only if it preserves and values difference, as de Beauvoir shows in her autobiographical writing.
Keywords: Identity; Freedom; Materialist feminism; Subalternity; Autobiography.