english Deconstructing the future: women’s bodies, queer pedagogies and education in the era of neo-patriarchy

Abstract

Global emergencies and contemporary crises call for a rethinking of educational strategies, challenging the predictive capacities of traditional forms of knowledge and pedagogical models grounded in heteronormative and binary assumptions. Within these frameworks, women’s bodies are often objectified, normalized, or rendered symbolically replaceable, also through technological and digital imaginaries. This contribution explores the potential of queer pedagogies as tools of Future Literacy for the re-signification of women’s bodies. Through a theoretical–critical analysis of queer theories and pedagogical literature, the paper highlights how questioning fixed identities and dominant narratives on gender and corporeality can foster educational practices capable of integrating body, mind, and emotions. Queer pedagogies thus emerge as a critical and transformative resource for imagining inclusive educational futures, countering the logics of control and commodification that shape women’s bodies in the era of neo-patriarchy and Artificial Intelligence.