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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
The objective of this article is to analyze the production of the subject Woman by reviewing some practices, discourses, and technologies promoted by the state, the church, and elites. It is important to emphasize that in most research about women or femininity, female subjectivity appears tightly linked to sexual difference. However, in this work I want to show that the notion of Woman is co-determined by race and class. The experience characteristic of such representation was possible only for a small group of white and bourgeois women. Others—Indian, black, and mestiza “women”—could hardly account for a social experience comparable to the Western narrative about woman. Nevertheless, processes of homogenization allow these others to be classified and disciplined according to the gender norm, yet without altering the prejudices and inequalities produced by the prevailing racist and classist system, which implies the production of other female subjectivities, of other “women.”
This article was first published as: Celenis Rodríguez Moreno. 2019. La mujer y sus versiones oscuras. In Feminismo Descolonial. Nuevos aportes teórico-metodológicos a más de una década. ed. Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso. Quito: Editorial Abya Yala, Pp. 123–46.
The idea of the obscure refers to “nonwhite women” and enables me to emphasize processes of racialization rather than racial taxonomies. I also intend to highlight the complexity of the processes of sex/gender subjectivation of nonwhite people, where there are aspects that tend to remain in the background, less visible.