The Two Sides of the Inequality between Men and Women: Economic and Libidinal Exploitation

Abstract

The intention of this work is to study the articulation between the psychic dimension and the socio-economic one of gender, in order to reach elements that could help to define the woman as subject of sexism and to identify in what measure the man occupies the position of its object. The structural aspects are of particular interest, and the argument is that the sexism causes hurts both to the women and to the men, and therefore it is not a sectorial problem of women, but it has general character. As consequence, the mobilization of the men on the attainment of the equality must not be based on moral, but political principles. The moral consequences when one appeals to the search of happiness, to planning an own plan of life, come off the politics.