The Golden Lever for Politics: Feminist Emotion and Women’s Agency

Dr. Langle de Paz’s concept of “feminist emotion” reconciles post-structuralist notions of the subject and phenomenologically rooted subjectivity with pragmatically oriented feminist claims. She proposes a move away from ideals of feminist consciousness as the ultimate venue for women’s emancipation and autonomy, and claims the need to look for signs and make use of preliminary and epistemologically unstable forms of emotional emancipation for personal and social change.