El ruido de la teoría feminista

Abstract

This article takes as its starting point Stuart Halls confirmation, in the seventies, of the impact of feminism in academia. Hall described the theoretical noise caused by the eruption of feminism in the then fledgling departments of Cultural Studies. Regarded as highly positive, the impact was so great that it forced the reorganisation of knowledge. The main aim of this paper is to explore the noise that feminism continues to make today, and in particular, to understand the effects of that noise on feminism itself almost forty years after the rupture with the system of patriarchal knowledge was initiated. In the last two decades, feminist theory has essentially been trapped in what is known as the crisis of the subject. This is possibly the most important tangle, and noise, facing feminist theory today.