The Sexual Difference: a Necessary Fiction?

On the one hand, the difference feminism points out the androcentric character of the Western thought which universalizes the masculine and relegates the feminine to otherness. This school of thought makes feminist politics whose aim is the recognition of the feminine considering the specifc experience of being a woman. As a consequence, the sexual difference appears as a central analytic category. On the other hand, gender theory remarks the heterosexual implication of the category of sex. This research deals with that subject taking into account Wittig´s writings about the straight mind and its influence on Butler’s thought, as well as Braidotti’s work, one of the main theorists of sexual difference. The objective will be to clarify the tension between gender theory and the thought of sexual difference in order to fnd a strategy that would avoid exclusion.