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Emancipation
#Emancipation is commonly described as a sort of #resistance of a political minority or disenf ranchised group. As Chantal Mouf f e points out f or the case of f eminism it should not be understood as a struggle for realizing the equality of a definable empirical group with a common essence and identity, women, but rather as a struggle against the multiple forms in which the category women is constructed in subordination (543). Emancipation only concerns excluded groups and insof ar needs to dif f erentiate this group f rom other ones. However, f ollowing Mouf f es argument, the emancipation of the subject implies the neccesity of the dissolution of the category. T he process doesnt end here, though, but leads into the identif ication of new subject positions that are systematically excluded. T his idea of emancipation is closely related to a radical democratic project which views the common good as a vanishing point, something to which we must constantly refer when we are acting as citizens, but that can never be reached as there will always be a constitutive outside (541). Source: Chantal Mouf f e (1997): Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics. In: Diana T. Meyers (Ed.): Feminist social thought. A reader. New York, NY: Routledge, S. 532546.