La violencia patriarcal de los cuerpos. Hacia una ética feminista antiespecista.

Abstract

This article analyzes how patriarchal logic objectifies and exploits the bodies of women and nonhuman animals, reducing them to functional resources and stripping them of their subjectivity. By analyzing the relationship between sexism and speciesism from the perspective of patriarchy as an oppressive conceptual framework, this research highlights how patriarchy uses dualistic hierarchies to legitimize the subordination of certain bodies. In the case of women, objectification is reflected in their representation as sexual objects; in the case of nonhuman animals, in their transformation into products that erases all evidence of their existence as living beings. In both cases, these practices perpetuate power structures that reinforce patriarchal logic. As a proposal, the article introduces feminist anti-speciesist ethics, which advocates for the resignification of the body as an ethical category. This approach seeks to make structural violence visible, reject the instrumentalization of bodies, and foster relationships based on interdependence, collective responsibility, and the transformation of exploitative dynamics. Feminist anti-speciesist ethics is presented as a pathway to dismantle oppressive narratives and build a model of coexistence grounded in sustainable and just practices.