The Mimetic Feminine: Re-examining and Critiquing Sexual Difference

本研究的目的是对女性在西方新自由主义中占主导地位的现代机制进行新颖的探索。虽然人们通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(1)妇女在新自由主义中被支配的具体机制，(2)在我们这个时代，旨在妇女自决和集体改变其生存条件的政治所面临的新挑战，以及(3)可用于应对这些挑战的工具。我将关注企业家自我的理想，这是新自由主义社会鼓励个人接受的一种社会身份。在分析这一理想时，我将分两步进行。首先，我将研究新自由主义的创业概念如何在诉诸自主和自决语言的同时，产生性别压迫并破坏集体解放。其次，我将分析支撑这一理想的新自由主义理性的具体形式。实现这一目标的关键将是：(1)揭示主体性的现代哲学解释中这种合理性的基础；(2)揭示当代女性主义理论提供的理解主体的替代方法。因此，我将研究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，并引导他们将“他人”，特别是女性视为需要利用、训练和客观化的资源。接下来，我将探讨一种不同的主体性观点是如何让我们克服新自由主义理想及其带来的征服。

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.