Communism Was a State Patriarchy, Not State Feminism
in Aspasia
Author:
Mihaela Miroiu
Mihaela Miroiu
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration mmiroiu@snspa.ro
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I shall appeal to a concept I consider regulative for political, moral, and cultural feminism: women’s autonomy. When autonomy is undermined by patriarchy, there is no gender-fair competition, nor a real gender partnership. It means that feminism can only attain its goals when women have the capacity to rule over their own welfare, freed from oppressive patriarchal, androcratic, and andromorphic cultural, moral, and political constraints.