Abstract

Difference is transformed into identity when it claims to establish its borders and its intangibility, when it protects itself against contamination, when it attacks an enemy because war is the only way to strengthen identity as a closed space over time. In the difference there is no incompatibility but in the identity there is. The feminism of the 70s and 80s was a moving ensemble of groups of women who looked to themselves and others to focus body and soul on female difference