La civilización feminista

Feminism is not a circumstantial tendency but a current with a civilizing entity, that is, a set of ideas and values capable of defining a new system of power relations, of social organization and of the roles that govern culture, mentalities and the behavior of the sexes. In this book, Amelia Valcárcel takes up the fundamental genealogy of the movement for equality and full citizenship for women: its different stages, its seminal works, and its central concepts. In a well-founded synthesis supported by an extensive academic career, Ella Valcárcel contextualizes this civilizing advance, clarifying the debate on what is the inalienable ethical and political agenda of feminism. Although historic progress has been made in the West against the culture of male domination, many goals remain to be achieved. Following its progressive and universal vocation, one of the greatest challenges of feminism will be to extend its principles to all corners of the globe. Faced with the queer drift -crystallized in the recent trans law- religious fundamentalisms and other reactionary alternatives, feminism remains an inalienable democratic and moral struggle.