The Mimetic Feminine: Re-examining and Critiquing Sexual Difference

这项研究的目的是对西方新自由主义中女性占主导地位的现代机制进行新的探索。虽然人们经常认为近几十年来在性别平等方面取得了真正的进展，但我将研究(I)新自由主义中女性占主导地位的具体机制，(Ii)旨在实现女性自决和集体改变她们生存条件的政治在我们这个时代面临的新挑战，以及(Iii)可以用来应对这些挑战的工具。我的重点将涉及企业家自我的理想，这是新自由主义社会鼓励个人接受的社会身份。在分析这一理想时，我将分两步进行。首先，我将研究创业的新自由主义概念，虽然呼吁自治和自决的语言，但如何产生性别压迫和破坏集体解放。其次，分析支撑这一理想的新自由主义理性的具体形式。关键在于：(I)揭示现代哲学对主体性的解释中这种合理性的基础；(Ii)揭示当代女权主义理论提供的理解主体的不同方式。因此，我将研究对这一主题的现代描述如何塑造新自由主义企业家自我的自我理解，并引导他们总体上将“他人”，特别是女性，视为需要利用、约束和对象化的资源。在此之后，我将探索一种不同的主体性观点如何使我们能够克服新自由主义理想及其产生的征服。

The aim of this research is a novel exploration of modern mechanisms through which women aredominated in Western neoliberalism. While it is often assumed that there has been a real progress ongender equality in recent decades, I will examine (i) the specific mechanisms through which women aredominated in neoliberalism, (ii) the new challenges that a politics aimed both at the self-determination ofwomen and at a collective transformation of their conditions of existence faces in our era, and (iii) thetools that can be used to respond to these challenges.My focus will concern the ideal of the entrepreneurial-self, a social identity that individuals in neoliberalsocieties are encouraged to embrace. In analysing this ideal, I will proceed in two steps. Firstly, I shallexamine how the neoliberal concept of entrepreneurship, whilst appealing to the language of autonomyand self-determination, generates gendered oppression and undermines collective liberation. Secondly, Ishall analyse the specific form of neoliberal rationality underpinning this ideal. Key to this will be (i)uncovering the foundations of this rationality in modern philosophical accounts of subjectivity and (ii)revealing alternative ways of understanding the subject offered by contemporary feminist theory. I willthus examine how the modern account of the subject shapes the self-understanding of neoliberalentrepreneurial-selves and leads them to view 'others' in general, and women specifically, as resourcesto be utilised, disciplined and objectified. Following this, I shall explore how a different view of subjectivitymight allow us to overcome neoliberal ideals and the subjugations they engender.