Les « énonciations de privilèges » dans le militantisme féministe en ligne : description et critique

Abstract

This article focuses on “privilege utterances” in online feminist activism: I call “privilege utterances” the discursive practice of listing sex, class, race etc. privileges that one has (or does not have) in order to situate one’s own speech regarding the oppressions one may suffer or inflict. First, I will describe the form and the pragmatic effects of these utterances and I will explain the different feminist movements in which they are rooted. Secondly, I will criticize these discursive practices of identity production. I will show that privilege utterances are based on the illusion of a unitary and autonomous subject and thus partially fail to achieve situated discourses.

Keywords

• discursive practices
• identity
• privilege utterances
• situated knowledge
• subjectivity