What's Critical about Critical Theory?

Starting from Nancy Fraser's essay, the present contribution explores some feminist critiques addressing Critical Theory. More specifically, it focuses on the theoretical achievements developed from a gender perspective. The author examines the private dimension as crucial to shape the public sphere and to redefine the concept of autonomy with a relational enphasis. Stemming from the multifaceted nature of the conditions of injustice, this essay takes into consideration the perspective of inter-sectionalism, connecting it to Nancy Fraser and Iris Marion Young's reflections on the different forms of oppression. The contribution concludes by proposing some open issues such as the urgency of both a feminism that starting from non-Western contexts is critical toward white feminism and of a social-critical reflection that goes beyond the nation state to face also the European dimension.