From Discontent to Empowerment: Upon a New Power Model

Abstract

This paper is the result of years of experience and discontent with certain approaches to women’s militancy and women’s activism. Women’s power as leaders should not consist in replacing a master wearing trousers with a master wearing skirts, both of them calling for submission from their subordinates. Consequently, the main problem that Gender Studies should solve is theorizing the issue of power and offering a new power model that is not hierarchical, but collaborative.

Keywords

• gender
• power
• pattern
• hierarchy
• submission