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The Woman and Her Obscure Versions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Celenis Rodríguez Moreno*
Affiliation:
Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios, Formación y Acción Feminista, GLEFAS. 45a 25a-35 Street, Apartment 302. Bogotá, Colombia
Alejandro Montelongo González
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. Av. Universidad 940, 20100. Aguascalientes, Mexico
*
Corresponding author. Email: cero30@gmail.com

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the production of the subject Woman by reviewing some practices, discourses, and technologies promoted by the state, the church, and elites. It is important to emphasize that in most research about women or femininity, female subjectivity appears tightly linked to sexual difference. However, in this work I want to show that the notion of Woman is co-determined by race and class. The experience characteristic of such representation was possible only for a small group of white and bourgeois women. Others—Indian, black, and mestiza “women”—could hardly account for a social experience comparable to the Western narrative about woman. Nevertheless, processes of homogenization allow these others to be classified and disciplined according to the gender norm, yet without altering the prejudices and inequalities produced by the prevailing racist and classist system, which implies the production of other female subjectivities, of other “women.”

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Type
Feminism in Translation
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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