ABSTRACT
This paper insists on the importance of keeping open the question: In what sense can men do feminism? The structural features of subject formation in terms of the division between ‘man’ and ‘woman’ depend upon existential experiences. Yet, when men do feminisms, they not only seem to transcend those experiences but also to move beyond the structural dynamic of sexual difference. The essay hints at the many complicated ways in which these impossible performances are acted out. To do this, it deals with feminist standpoint theories, describes the fate of earlier essays written by the author, refers to a few of the author’s experiences, and, finally, reads carefully and closely a literary autobiographical narrative. It thus hopes to articulate the manifold (im)possibilities of the predicament, probably widening the notion of feminism along the process.
