Otro grito de Cassandra: la “benevolencia universal” como praxis ecofeminista en Mary Wollstonecraft

Margarita Carretero González

doi:10.14198/fem.2013.22.12

Autores/as

Margarita Carretero González Universidad de Granada, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2013.22.12

Palabras clave:

Wollstonecraft, Mary, Afectos privados vs. benevolencia universal, Discurso de la sensibilidad, Economía capitalista, Ética del cuidado

Resumen

Incluso antes de que la publicación de las Cartas escritas durante una corta estancia en Suecia, Noruega y Dinamarca (1796) dieran a conocer el lado ecologista del feminismo de Mary Wollstonecraft, en sus trabajos anteriores ya se había mostrado como una defensora de la transformación de las estructuras de poder a través de la práctica de la benevolencia universal hacia todas las criaturas. Al reivindicar la función decisiva de las madres en la educación de sus hijos, Wollstonecraft expresa su esperanza en que las mujeres realmente puedan cambiar las estructuras de poder que regulan las relaciones entre los géneros y las distintas especies. Utilizando la metáfora preferida de Laurence Buell, defiendo en este artículo que las obras de Mary Wollstonecraft pueden leerse como palimpsestos tempranos del pensamiento ecofeminista.

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