We feminists, categories, knots, and epistemic reflections in crisis's times

Abstract

This article presents lines of feminism as theory and movement, its contributions and criticisms of androcentric knowledge and some concepts coined for its own politics to make women's inequality visible and which are currently the focus of debate within feminism, especially gender. In a situation of conflict and division of the movement, both theoretically and practically, is adopted a perspective anchored in a pacifist feminism that seeks to build bridges. It is proposed to rescue for feminist theory the importance of putting aside arrogance and making room for the notion of limit, which links us to ecology, listening to women who put the material deficiencies in their lives at the centre; leaving aside the focus on identity and taking the debate to the reconstruction of a “we” that allows us to continue influencing the world in favour of diversity and the commonality of women. It finds that a review of the evolution of some concepts of feminist politics and the ambiguities of their use can help to understand the different positions and to construct a way, albeit contingent, of speaking and acting from a we, the feminists.