From gender to feminism. Antipatriarchal criticism of contemporary indigenous women authors

Abstract

This article analyzes the antipatriarchal criticism developed by contemporary indigenous women authors in Latin America, focusing particularly on their critical dialogues with their main interlocutors: feminist and indigenous movements. For this purpose, a corpus of essayistic texts produced by these authors has been gathered, from which this field of anti patriarchal criticism and its characteristics are identified, and then exemplified with texts by Mayan, Xinca and Mapuche women authors.