Un claro espera allí en el bosque, siempre, para nosotras

My paper, “There is a Clearing Waiting There in the Woods, For Us Women, Always” looks at the idea that it is possible, independently of the time and circumstances (whether they are favourable or not), to find a place in which women are free, where we find ourselves, and that the younger women of feminism should concern ourselves with this, leaving aside other less important things, such as the “battle”, or the “vindication”. I take the idea from the volume of María Zambrano’s book Clearings in the Woods. If that clearing has not been found, the rest does not make much sense, since without that knowledge of ourselves we will be guided irremediably in the wrong way in what we do outside of our own being. I also speak of love, of freedom, of creativity, of the man question, of women’s sexual freedom…