Des réconciliations extorquées

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This article reads together The Second Sex and the Dialectic of Enlightenment, in order to build upon their demystification of the woman-nature identification. In particular, I examine the problem of the so-called “servitude to the species” that undergirds the identity between reified concepts of “woman” and “nature”. I argue that approaching this problem critically, with Beauvoir, and Adorno and Horkheimer, allows us to identify the extorted reconciliations necessitated by bourgeois and colonial projects of the domination of Others and nature.

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