Focused on gender difference, the women's movement would be doomed to break up as women escaped their confinement within an oppressed social category and began to enter the space offered by an egalitarian and democratic society for the pluralistic expression of their multi-faceted public identity. By employing a phenomenological approach, which concentrates on the valorization of life experiences and the shared history of women adhering to a common civic culture, the author advances an alternative feminist strategy incorporating the diverse standpoints of concrete women-subjects with a view to rallying them around jointly articulated political actions.