Feminist struggle and experience: elements for a critical theory of the public sphere of women

This article presents a critical analysis of the relationship between feminist struggle, the public sphere and capitalism in the light of the concept of blockages of experience developed by the Frankfurt School linked authors Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt. Three moments of the feminist struggle are reconstructed: redistribution, representation and recognition. Fi-nally, a materialist outline is made from the distinctive blockages of women's experience in relation to the bourgeois public sphere. Thus, from a hermeneutic-critical approach to politi-cal and social theory, the aim is to highlight the need to broaden the conceptual framework in which the contemporary feminist struggle is situated in relation to the public sphere, rescuing classical presuppositions of an economic-political understanding of social conflict. As a result, it is concluded that it is necessary to make the bond between praxis and theory intelligible in the light of Marxist assumptions. Therefore the originality of this article consists in making a materialist outline of the objective and subjective contradictions of women's experience, understanding their condition of emancipatory subject.