Feminist and anthropological displacements. Practice of the constituent power

Abstract

This paper tries to think about the discursive, practical and political relationship between anthropology, feminism and social movements. This is the hypothesis: actually, feminism
couldn´t say “biology is not a destiny” until recent dates, as paradoxical as it can be, not until decades after Simone de Beauvoir wrote that in The Second Sex. In order to understand this displacement I will use Antonio Negri’s concept of constituent power, the constitution of the potence as a resistant and creative potence, to inquire about historical transformations. Of course, constituent power assumes different forms throughout history. In regard to feminism,
I will discuss the form that was shaped by the gender feminism, and the last reshaping of the form by postfeminism, and how this two forms of constituent power changed critical anthropology’s face from the sixties onward.