The Necessity of the Female Subject and the Possibility of Its Destabilisation

Abstract

Abstract

Feminist politics necessitates a kind of essentialism of the category of woman to reconfigure the theoretical coherence of the feminist standpoint. So the destabilization of the subject can somehow dislodges the ground of feminist politics. The stable subject presumes a kind of fixity which internalizes the possibility of universalization and homogenization of both the categories of the dominator and dominated. The subject position of the woman can be engaged from two different standpoints-the feminism of identity and the feminism of difference questions. The notion of the female subject position is also necessary to form the notion of the female citizen. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Julia Kristeva show in their works how a kind of strategic essentialism is necessary to consolidate the feminist politics through the subject position of the female. So a complete destabilization of the female subject will disturb the theoretical consolidation.