Patriarcato e femminismi postcoloniali

The announcement of the death of the patriarchy has marked in Italy the“feminism of difference” since the second half of the Nineties, and it has become current again around ten years ago in a completely changed national and international context. The issue has now gone way beyond national borders. The postcolonial criticism to the universal subject, on the one hand, and to mainstream feminism, on the other, is testifying at most of persisting explanatory power of patriarchy, caught at the intersection with capitalism (and its crisis) and the many forms of contemporary social domination, with sexism and colonialism - material and metaphoric -, with the dynamics of production and reproductive choices, the psychological structures and the cultural stereotypes. Thus investigating the horizon of the postcolonial feminisms, as a system of theories and practices epistemological and cultural that are 're-oriented' also through the lens of patriarchy, seems now the less obvious way to challenge our time in transformation by a 'gender oriented' approach.