ABSTRACT
The opposition to any fundamental truth concerning the feminine condition means rejecting any type of induction to a model of prefixed femininity. This chapter considers the relation of women to the feminine at the intersection between the singular and the universal. The concepts of universality and singularity are not mutually exclusive; each has its own areas as well as broad intersections which can only be categorized through non-disjunctive forms of thought. This means considering common categories as well as others which are diverse and singular, plus their co-existence, even including their paradoxes and contradictions. The chapter discusses the need for processes of construction and deconstruction, whose elements operate through relations of multiplicities. Feminine subjectivity is formulated in a context of conflicting options: between the difficult access to subjectivity for women in Modernity and the postmodern dissolution of the subject, new challenges are constantly generated.
