Dialogue of Civilizations from a Feminist Perspective

This article is an attempt to clarify some aspects of interaction among civilizations from a feminist point of view. Questions that this article tries to answer are: If we consider the “symbolic” order of modern societies on one hand, and “semiotic” anarchy (in Kristevian terms) of other societies on the other, is there any possibility to establish a dialogue among these cultures on the basis of mutual understanding? Or would that be an agonal dialogue which, as Lyotard puts it “falls in the domain of agonistics” of power? And finally, how would a non- agonal dialogue be possible without reduction of any culture into another?