Bodies and corporalities in Latin American context: popular narratives, absent body and feminist memories

Abstract

We intend to resume the epistemological debate about "the popular" focusing on it as a political subject. From the academic productions of popular feminisms, among which we register this research, giving the debate about "the popular" implies addressing two problems: sustaining the critique of androcentric knowledge based on the consideration of the experiences of the subjects as a substantial core and, raise the Latin American context of the conceptions in which the categories and situated knowledge are organized.

We start from the assumption that classical feminism privileges knowledge of the body-object produced around an “other”, whose political, activist and dissident narratives are "secondary". However, from popular feminisms we resume the effort to contextualize the body as a relationality that is perceived in the narratives in which it accounts for communality. The experiences and knowledge built by popular movements account for the inseparability of "body-territory-knowledge", only converted into a historical fact with the conquest and rupture of the body-territory, and the imposition of other models of life.