Outsider-insider: An identity experience of Latin American feminisms

This article addresses the place of enunciation of mestizo feminists who do not belong to current identity movements. This question is expressed in the notion of outsider-insider, which is the reflection of subjects who are simultaneously inside and outside feminist struggles, a tension that manifests itself in a pending debate in Latin American feminisms. Under this interpellation, two Mexican feminist voices, the writer Dahlia De La Cerda and the anthropologist Mariana Mora, have been placed in dialogue, exposing lines of thought that conform particular and complementary ways of understanding the identity relations of the feminist subject. The methodology of analysis considers the hermeneutic interpretation of discourse, in conjunction with the theoretical tools of intersectional feminisms, and is applied to two texts by the aforementioned authors. The results of this discursive interpretation show territory and mestiza-ness as two categories imbricated in peripheral feminisms. In addition, it is shown that affects and the capacity to listen constitute two key elements that conclude in an indispensable political positioning to subvert the epistemic valuations that feminism grants to the privileges of race and class and to question the current definitions of mestizaje in Latin America.

• Main Author: Villanueva-Gallardo, Sandra (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: feminismos; identidade; América latina; local de enunciação; miscigenação; território; feminisms; identity; Latin America; place of enunciation; mestizaje; territory; identidad; Latinoamérica; lugar de enunciación; territorio
• Online Access: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/6189