According to the researcher, certain aspects of Derrida's philosophy are compatible with the feminist ethic of care.

Dr. Gabriela Caviedes, a researcher at Centro Signos, has been awarded a Fondecyt de Iniciación 2025 project for her research entitled ".Justice and interdependence. Feminist ethics of care from the perspective of Derridian ethics.".

The academic explains that, "the project is based on the fact that, during the last decades, the thought of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida has served queer feminist theory to argue against sexual duality, in favor of the deconstruction of the binary".

Given this premise, Gabriela elaborates her research question: given that Derrida's philosophy is very broad, is it possible to link it with other traditions of feminist thought that do not consider themselves postmodern, that do not want to deconstruct the sexual binary, but even seek to affirm it?

Given this, her hypothesis is yes: the feminism of care. As she argues in her project, certain aspects of Derrida's philosophy are compatible with feminist care ethics. In addition to being compatible, the insertion of the Derridean perspective makes it possible to resolve some tensions experienced by different branches within the ethics of care. While some emphasize the need for dyadic interdependence between caregiver and cared-for person, others think that this vision is too restricted, and are in favor of a social justice that integrates care policies at the state level.

The integration of Derrida's vision allows two fundamental contributions: to identify which practices do not constitute true care and; to understand the basis of the justice/interdependence tension. This work opens new horizons of validity of Derridean thought in feminist theory, at a time that seems to mark the beginning of the decline of queer theory. Simultaneously, it provides a theoretical unity to branches of care feminism that today seem divorced by their premises.

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