ABSTRACT
This chapter reconstructs the debate on the fundamental issues at the heart of the relationship between equality and difference, placing the analysis within the broad and complex framework of the concept of equality, problematising the concept of universality and universalism starting from the voices of women who, in the history of Western political thought, have stressed the limits of the classical formulation of rights. The author reads the paradigm of equality and the universal subject of rights against the practice of naming difference developed by feminist thinkers in Italy who have allowed to go beyond the meaningless and abstract enhancement of female identity and to overcome a perspective of equality in which subjects (and relationships) are considered in a neutral perspective.
