No. 12 (2017): Alter/Native Feminists

“The wisdom of our wives” was the first title that came to mind when I was commissioned to edit this issue of Cuestiones de Género. It was not a random choice, but the result of a growing distrust towards the usual academic discourses, which privilege epistemologies and methodologies that contribute to the deterritorialization of much marginalized female knowledge, and which are nevertheless essential for collective survival.

This monograph sought, and perhaps has succeeded, in echoing some of the essential "alter/native wisdom". Western academic feminism has often been accused of ignoring and silencing the many differences that exist among women, assuming that gender is a universal and "omniscient" category of analysis. But the specificities of the "becoming-woman" are incommensurable with each other. Sharing our stories (even at the university level) will make us stronger as stateless, rooted, globalist women...

Coordinator: Marta Sofía López Rodríguez

Number of articles received: 45.

Number of accepted articles: 25.