Otherness in Latin America: ethnicity, poverty and femininity. On the origins of modern social exclusion and social position of women

Abstract

The author enhances the lack of prominence of women in pre-twentieth century history, from the dominance of patriarchal patterns, in a context of inequality, discrimination and violence springing from organized social power relations. Then locates this cultural context in the exercise of power in Latin America, and its links to femininity, ethnicity and poverty, to the processes of constitution of subjectivity, and to its relation to language processes. Finally proposes that the culture of terror in which we are locked must be demolished, and invites us to open to the heterogeneity of Latin American reality.