A dialogue between the Butlerian critics to the liberal subject and the disability’s studies

Abstract

In the present article, I would like to recover the questions that the American feminist Judith Butler made to the liberal ontology of the subject in order to give some guidelines for the evaluation of feminist political practices in our struggle and resistance against neoliberalism. In the study of the non-problematized power vectors in the postulation of a liberal subject, I would like to dwell on this opportunity in one that has not been so problematized within feminism: ablebodiedness/ disability. I put into dialogue the reflections that come from the Butlerian proposals with those that make them from the disability’s studies and the movements of functional diversity in order to provide analytical tools for a critique of the normative horizon that produces corporal hierarchies.