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Bolivian Studies Journal
Article . 2011
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Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Feminización de la comunidad

Authors: Raquel Alfaro;

Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Feminización de la comunidad

Abstract

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. En este trabajo analizo críticamente las bases de articulación de la sugerente comunidad alternativa propuesta por Mujeres Creando Comunidad. Muestro que la particularidad de este proyecto reside en el hecho de surgir desde un movimiento social feminista predominantemente indígena. Esto le permite llevar al límite un principio ético andino de coexistencia (el-estar-en-común-con-el-Otro), trascender con éxito marcos patriarcales subyacentes tanto a sociedades indígenas como occidentales, y postular un espacio posible de convivencia donde las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres sean simétricas. Destaco el hecho de que la filiación de este proyecto a guerras anti-patriarcales ancestrales impide que, a diferencia de otras corrientes feministas, resulte una inversión (o desgaste) de energía en la creación de un balance (muchas veces aparente) entre los polos masculino y femenino, pues no se pierde de vista en ningún momento que las asimetrías de género son un problema estructural y sistémico.

Keywords

Anthropology, Ahayu-watan, Andean Complementariety, Ayllu, Chacha-Warmi, Communitarian Feminism, Decolonization, Depatriarchalizing Principle, Pachakuti, Latin America. Spanish America, GN1-890, F1201-3799

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