Abstract
In this article I engage with and interrogate experience. As a witness of thirty years of feminism in the region, I pose key questions that arise both from the genealogical method and from the modernity/coloniality critique. The exercise has allowed me to deepen the criticism that I have been developing, for a few decades now, from within the feminism we know. The problems that are revealed are no longer found merely within hegemonic feminism, I rather find that the whole feminist field is grounded in a Eurocentric feminist reason, including the experiences in counter-hegemonic spaces. I develop a methodology that I have named as “genealogy of experience” that allows me to conclude that there is a coloniality of the feminist reason that remains hidden behind the veil of engagement with the women’s struggle. The Latin American and Caribbean context, where I develop this project and I write, is only the case I have chosen to show the persistence of this feminist reason.
Keywords:
Feminist theory; Feminism in Latin America; Coloniality; Decolonial Feminism