Rehearsing Gender, Desire and Work; Ontology and Emancipation in Marxism; For Feminisms- Emancipationist and Decolonial

Abstract

This essay revisits an article in which we approach a key concept in Marxism, emancipation, relating links about its north, the human gender, a category worked in the ontology of the social being by Lukács and Marx, with debates about gender, as elaborated in feminist debates about patriarchy. In this text, we insist that the centrality of work should be shared with those of sexuality and desire, but we also argue that the debate on emancipation projects, both gender in feminist writings and in Marxist approach should address colonized subjects. In the case of Latin America, emancipation implies the debate on desire as élan of life, and work as coloniality of being, of power and of knowledge. Decolonial feminist contributions and emphasis on diversity of experiences and resistance levels are considered. It is argued that desire, sexuality and work are singularities of the human being, but who is considered human?

Keywords: Emancipation, gender, work, desire, colonialities.