%0 Journal Article %T Mujeres, diferencias y multiplicidad. Apuntes para un abordaje ¨¦tico de la vida subjetiva y corporal del g¨¦nero %A Vacarezza %A Nayla Luz %J Cadernos Pagu %D 2012 %I N¨²cleo de Estudos de G¨ºnero - Pagu %R 10.1590/S0104-83332012000200012 %X this article posits an interrogation about the ways in which it is possible to keep using, for academic and political purposes, the category "women" from a perspective that collects the contributions of the gender performativity theory proposed by judith butler, and the philosophy of multiplicity by gilles deleuze. instead of appealing to a transcendent and binary gender distribution, we opt for an ethical way of keeping the term "women" as a radically open category. following the track of the present social life of the category gives visibility to a multiple field of social subjectivities which offer themselves to others from a position of enunciation and corporal existence as "woman". %K women %K multiplicity %K differences %K gender performativity. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-83332012000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en