Kant and the problem of women

a feminist review of the possibilities of their civic inclusion

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of harmonizing Kant’s juridical-political thought with a feminist
perspective of women’s emancipation. To this end, first of all, the mechanisms by which the author deprives women of the ability
to guide their behavior by principles of reason will be analyzed. Consequently, it will be argued that women’s moral inferiority
is the cause of their political or civic inferiority. Secondly, once this link has been made, the viability of a conciliation will be
analyzed, taking into account the consequences that this would bring about in the sexual division by spheres and in the fact of
thinking of political subjects as disincarnated subjects.