Abstract
Contemporary Latin American feminisms are undergoing a growing visibilization in which the body occupies a central place. These bodies question the uniqueness of the subject "woman" and the category "gender" as the only vector of oppression. Through the ethnographic method, I find in the public manifestations of Ecuadorian feminisms four figurations: the whore, the witch, the body-territory and the carishina (in kiwcha, as a male). I conclude that through the performativity of these bodies, feminist subjectivities are negotiated and conceptions of the body and gender violence are reworked.
Translated title of the contribution | Performative Figurations of Feminist Subjectivity: The Body in Protest Rituals in the City of Quito, Ecuador |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
Title of host publication | Las Ciencias sociales y la agenda nacional: Reflexiones y propuestas desde las Ciencias Sociales. Vol. X Estudios de Género: feminismos y temas emergentes |
Publisher | Consejo Mexicano De Ciencias Sociales (Comecso) |
Pages | 1181-1206 |
Number of pages | 26 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-607-98224-7-7 |
State | Published - 30 Apr 2019 |
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 413A Social and Cultural Studies