Freedom and responsibility of women, between patriarchy and neoliberalism

The objective of this analysis is to try to understand what relationship presently exists between gendered conceptions of responsibility and women’s freedom, neoliberal hyper-responsibilisation and the rhetoric of care mainstreaming. In the following pages I shall try to reflect on the consequences of the neoliberal subjectivity in a feminist perspective, focusing above all on the impact that the transformations of responsibility and freedom produce on the life of women, as well as on their legal and political condition.

A study by Orsetta Giolo, published in GENIUS, Rivista di studi giuridici sull’orientamento sessuale e l’identità di genere (2021).