Los movimientos sociales desde la perspectiva feminista: pistas metodológicas para un análisis no androcéntrico de la acción social

Abstract

Social movements have a determining role in the political landscape. They are agents of change that question and bring to light the power structures that the system does not express by itself. However, as power operates as a network, social movements are not exempt from harboring relations of domination and power. In this context, based on a feminist methodology and the use of gender categories as a device of power, sexual division of labor, access to the public space, and decision-making, the objective of this work is to provide methodological elements for the analysis of non-separatist or mixed social movements, whose main purpose is not related to breaking power relations based on the gender device. The feminist analysis makes it possible to show elements that, from the androcentric theory of the study of social movements, had not been considered as relevant. Ignoring these aspects produces and reproduces, in most cases, political violence against women. Nevertheless, in other cases, it contributes to making the sexual harassment and violence experienced by women activists invisible.