Gender sensitivity to build more just worlds

Abstract

This article explores the limitations of using the perspective metaphor and the potentialities of employing gender sensitivity as a feminist political-affective tool instead. Macro-political changes, focused on gender perspective, have not been able to eradicate gender-based violence. It remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the world. Today, the hegemony of sight -the sense of distance par excellence- which has a long history, prevails. Gender perspective is a metaphorical expression that responds to this ocularcentric universe in which public-political spatiality, reason and culture continue to be codified as masculine. It is impossible to depatriarchalise life from the aseptic and hierarchical distance between subject-object imposed by the perspective. The article proposes, instead, to act through gender sensitivity, reversing the burden of a persistent stereotype associated with the feminine. Against the forced reduction of sensitive frequencies -a distinctive operation of the contemporary regime–it is proposed to act from gender sensitivity, a less transited trope, which appeals to the intensive and entangled reverberation between bodies-affects-thoughts.