La epistemología feminista: una forma alternativa de generación de conocimiento y práctica.

Abstract

Historically, scientific knowledge has been dominated both by Western philosophy and by a hegemonic epistemology that has constructed the criteria of truth and falsity of the sciences. Among the different voices that have questioned this reality, feminist epistemologies emerge with a profound critique of the pillars that support Western and patriarchal knowledge to deconstruct them. At the same time, they propose new ways of understanding the world, other theoretical categories, concepts, and methodological inputs in an act of epistemic subversion. is article presents and supports the theoretical elements that make up the feminist epistemologies produced in Northern countries, and Latin American decolonial and community feminisms. It focuses on the fundamental role that the body plays as a place of power, knowledge, experience, and resistance, as well as presents the meeting points between classical feminist epistemologies and the feminist epistemologies of our countries and peoples of the South, showing the questions and contributions of the latter to science, knowledge, and wisdom that are, at the same time, patriarchal, racialized, exclusionary and colonial.