Hay política en el Caprabo

A two-sexed citizenry necessarily will ask for a public space very different from the one that we know, which is modelled on the male body. And to begin with, because I believe that today the area of work is the most political one for women, I am speaking of a new organisation of work, of a revolution of the idea of work, different from the welfare state and the battle to have more daycare and nurseries, different to all the stopgap solutions that we are offered in order to be able to reconcile production and reproduction. I am also speaking about a new political symbolic. The fact is that our reflection is groundbreaking, and we are afraid of doing harm because we are afraid of losing relationships.There is a book by two northamerican sociologists which analyses the fact that women do not know how to negotiate their salary, while for example they are incredibly good when it comes to negotiating for others. The conclusion they reach is that what keeps the brake on for themselves is the fear of losing the love of their interlocutor, the fear of creating difficulties for them and of being judged negatively and detested by them. And so, in order not to do harm, knowing that the political practice of difference —which simply means to always keep in mind that we are free because we are women and not in spite of it— can be a groundbreaking practice, we enclose ourselves in our small space, we become claustrophilic.