Mujeres Creando Comunidad
Feminizating Communty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4791638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raquel Alfaro (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 211-236 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bolivian Studies Journal/Revista de Estudios Bolivianos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-2247 • E-ISSN: 2156-5163 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/bsj.2010.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2070099247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
This work is a critical examination of the very foundations that gave rise to the thought-provoking alternative community proposed by Mujeres Creando Comunidad. I show that the special feature of this project is the fact that it arises from within a feminist social movement that is predominatly indigenous. This allows the movement to take the Andean ethical principle of human coexistance (the "being-as-one-with-the-Other") to its limits, to successfully transcend patriarchal paradigms underlying both indigenous and Western societies, and to postulate a possible space of coexistance where relations between men and women are symmetrical. I emphasize the fact that it is the connection of this project to ancestral anti-patriarchal wars that prevents it (as distinct from other feminist currents), from becoming a futile inversion of energies in its efforts to create of a balance between the male and the female poles. This is because at no time does Mujeres Creando Comunidad lose sight that gender asymmetries respond to a structural and systemic problem
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Inversion (geology · Sight · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Cultures and History · Philosophy · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |