El sesgo patriarcal del conocimiento

Abstract

No periodization is ever neutral, much less the dominant perspectives on how history is interpreted. Our forms of knowledge imply a patriarchal bias that constitutes a form of reductionism in at least two senses: first, the tendency to reduce the totality of human history to what I call the patriarchal horizon, and which is but the last breath of a much longer and complex story; and second, even within the patriarchal horizon, this kind of blindness tends to fade out the role of women and their contributions in any field. The bias gradually becomes a canon, it seems natural and goes unnoticed. This paper discusses the depatriarchalization of knowledge and the study of long history, both understood as indispensable strategies for the political struggle of women and the elimination of gender-generic systems of oppression.