K některým strategiím feministické politiky: dekonstrukce rodové/genderové symboliky

Abstract

The deconstruction of gender symbolism is one of the methods and goals of contemporary feminist theory and practice - politics. The article deals with four strate- gies. First, there is lesbianism as a deconstructive practice which denaturalises the in- stitutions of 'compulsory heterosexuality'. Second, there are the deconstructive ap- proaches to the issue of sexual violence, in order to question the belief that sexual vio- lence is the natural expression of male aggressivity and women are men's victims. A better strategy seems to be to take the violence as a discursive matter that can be re- described. If the narrative about a successful resistance prevails over the narrative of woman as a natural victim, the aggressor's expectations can be changed. Third, there is the deconstruction of beauty discourses showing that these discourses lead women to be weak, unable to resist violence, and susceptible to mental diseases like anorexia. Fourth, there is the deconstruction of maternity discourses, associating women with ma- ternity and seeing a woman's body as the subject of necessary control by the psycho- medical sciences. They form an idea of woman's nature that is invariable and unchange- able. This notion is questioned by feminism as a serious limit on women's agency.