Feminism under analysis

“What is Feminism?” is a very well done compendium of everything there is to know about feminism today. It brings together the entire history of this movement in favor of the equality between the sexes, reports on the different «waves» that have constituted it, elaborates a critique of the ultimate drifts, offers a very sensible answer to the question «what is it to be woman The author gives us a moving testimony about older women, proposes several ways to improve our society with a feminine accent and, finally, provides a well-chosen annotated bibliography, to continue advancing in the study of these issues.

The author tells us three fundamental things: that feminism is essentially positive and necessary; that it has enriched the world by making it more just and balanced; and that it was not originally an ideology, but the demand for a right.

While it makes sense to distinguish between the biological and cultural aspects of the sexuality, But there is no doubt that certain offshoots have turned this into a radical ideology. Queer feminism, now hegemonic, which other feminisms hold responsible for the “erasure of women,” maintains that both gender and sex are constructions determined by power. An abstract, impersonal social power, following in the wake of Foucault, somewhat mysterious, perhaps somewhat fantastical. Thus, from this point of view, it defends not the woman, but an unstable «continuum» of many genders, one for almost every desire or state of mind. 

María Caballero's book brings order to this confusing panorama and helps us understand what it means to be a woman today.