Limits of an extemporaneous vision: Nietzsche and the emancipation of women

Abstract

This article evaluate Nietzsche's, especially modern, position on women and women's emancipation, opposing this to the later unfolding of women's history and the way in which Nietzsche was received in feminist studies. Our objective with this is, by noting the reasons for the Nietzschean discourse on women at the heart of his work, to establish the points in which the philosopher reached an extemporaneous thought and the points in which his vision was not sharp enough to understand the history of women, female oppression and for the prediction of the future feminist movement. For that, we use a feminist bibliography that shows the limitations and appropriations of Nietzsche in the feminist reception. Finally, the contribution of the text is to offer a vision of Nietzsche's theses on women in contrast to the feminist reading that authors such as Beauvoir, Benhabib, Butler, Federici and Moura have made of Nietzsche.