Comment définir un groupe sans exclure aucune de ses parties ? Le genre et la notion sartrienne de la structure sérielle selon Iris Marion Young

Abstract

Following the criticisms of many women in society who disapprove and delegitimize 
feminist theories that take the white, ethnocentric heterosexist conception of 
women as a model, Iris Marion Young attempts to think of the group “woman” as a group, without excluding any of its parts. This task leads her to the Sartrean notion of serial structure to think of women as a social 
group whose members do not necessarily have to share the same attributes to be 
recognized as such. This approach allows her to consider the possibility of a feminism that does not rely on the category "women" based on common objects, but as a category that 
would make a unity with plurality. Embracing different practices and transforming them into political issues unique to the condition 
of women, Young thus makes it possible to think of feminism as a group in which women, both as singular beings and as beings belonging to several categories, can find themselves, come together, but above all, identify themselves. Feminism considered as a political theory and practice becomes a group with which all women identify.