Au-dela du consentement: pour une theorie feministe de la seduction

In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Heft 2, S. 47-66

Abstract

In France, the DSK scandal made possible in 2011 a new awareness of sexual violence, but also, paradoxically, a controversy regarding seduction -- launched in the name of a so-called "feminism a la francaise", which has been presented since the 1990s as a countermodel to American feminism, accused of conflating violence and seduction. Should feminism, in reaction, abandon seduction to antifeminists? This text explores the opposite approach: thinking about seduction implies moving beyond consent. It is not about the individual, whether free or not, but rather about the subject (in Foucault's sense) constituted through a power relation. Far from denying domination, we must develop erotics exploring this "problem". Politically, a feminist theory of seduction could only make feminism more desirable. Adapted from the source document.