From Discontent to Empowerment: Upon a New Power Model

Mihaela Mudure

doi:10.2478/genst-2023-0030

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From Discontent to Empowerment: Upon a New Power Model

Gender Studies

Volume 22 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)

By: Mihaela Mudure

Open Access

|Dec 2023

Abstract

This paper is the result of years of experience and discontent with certain approaches to women’s militancy and women’s activism. Women’s power as leaders should not consist in replacing a master wearing trousers with a master wearing skirts, both of them calling for submission from their subordinates. Consequently, the main problem that Gender Studies should solve is theorizing the issue of power and offering a new power model that is not hierarchical, but collaborative.

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