ABSTRACT
This chapter is an itinerary through the work on subjectivity produced by feminist and other scholars in the last thirty years that sets this production into a longue duree perspective. One of the main questions this chapter tackles is: what is the added value of feminism to the ways of understanding and conceptualizing subjectivity? People have encountered two meanings of subjectivity. While the first insists on the capacity to imagine, think and decide one's life, the second refers to the relationship between subjects in the field of knowledge. The first process is often called emancipation, which for many women includes working also outside of the house and the domestic environment, being able to use contraceptives, achieving high levels of education, having access to various kinds of relationships, wearing whatever they like. The second process, the so-called death of the subject, refers in the first place to philosophy and theory, and has had a decisive influence on many disciplines.
