Patriarchy and Masculinities. Deconstruction as a task of reconstruction of a social order

Abstract

The struggle of the feminist movements questions something more than the privileges that the patriarchal system imposes on the hegemonic sex-generic identity of cis-heterosexual masculinity: it questions the very bases on which the social order as a whole is based and built. For this reason, the rejection of the movement and its demands often comes not only from privileged men but also from women themselves and from other subjugated gender-generic identities. The moral violence that shapes the social structure as a whole is building a hegemonic model of masculinity that reduces feminisms and their struggles, to an attack on the subjectivity of men, which entails a feeling of disorientation and stupefaction in those who are located in this dominant gender identity when not finding another way of being male in this current social order. Because of this, we propose to identify the possibilities of radical transformation of the social order as a whole that enables the feminist struggle and the roles, challenges and responsibilities of the dominant gender identities in this process.