Abstract

ARAYA UMANA, Sandra. The analytic category of gender: Notes for a discussion. Hallazgos [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.23, pp.287-305. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2015.0023.014.

Since feminism of the 70s, especially the Anglo-Saxon, the analytical category of gender emerged, which allowed revealing the constructed nature of inequalities between women and men. From the initial approach, this category referred to the need to rethink and act on analytical perspectives, and permeated by a partial male view that historically had concealed or disguised these inequalities, from the anatomical difference between the sexes. “Woman is not born, she is made”; phrase of Simone de Beauvoir is an antecedent of the social and cultural construction that gender category incorporates within its main tenets. Become women is much more complicated that transformed into a man, because, historically, the human and the male have been interchangeable concepts in the same way that they have been the concepts of women and inferiority. This article aims to show the richness of gender as an analytical category and its contribution to the understanding of other categories such as power, culture and ideology. In the analysis of the category power, some discussion arising decolonial studies to show that the construction of a feminist project - ético boat politicall-, require large doses of agreement and unity are taken up, but in particular a critical consciousness

Keywords : Gender; culture; empowerment; contemporary discussion.

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