El ancho mar-océano que nos une y nos separa

Abstract

I want critically to draw some lines of the complex situation of Latin America Feminism. So I follow a line from deconstruction of hegemonic feminist discourse to the concept of situated knowledge, unexactly apropiated. First, I analyse the construct “Latin American Women” as Mohanty did with “Third World Women” concept in order to avoid ontologization. Then, I adopt Arendt distinction between “discrimination” and “segregation” in order to value our real achievements. Next, I want to show the importance some articulations have, to explain poverty and maquila-work as a feminization process of empoverishment as a structural way of violence. Other more typically investigations are added, as on familiar networks, war and its consequences for women, forced migration, as the most frequent way of gender and ethnic articulation as a way of exclusion from Rights. In brief, violence is the main axes I revise.