Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Feminizating Communty

Authors

  • Raquel Alfaro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2010.7

Keywords:

Ahayu-watan, Andean Complementariety, Ayllu, Chacha-Warmi, Communitarian Feminism, Decolonization, Depatriarchalizing Principle, Pachakuti

Abstract

This work is a critical examination of the very foundations that gave rise to the thought-provoking alternative community proposed by Mujeres Creando Comunidad. I show that the special feature of this project is the fact that it arises from within a feminist social movement that is predominatly indigenous.  This allows the movement to take the Andean ethical principle of human coexistance (the “being-as-one-with-the-Other”) to its limits, to successfully transcend patriarchal paradigms underlying both indigenous and Western societies, and to postulate a possible space of coexistance where relations between men and women are symmetrical.  I emphasize the fact that it is the connection of this project to ancestral anti-patriarchal wars that prevents it (as distinct from other feminist currents), from becoming a futile inversion of energies in its efforts to create of a balance between the male and the female poles. This is because at no time does Mujeres Creando Comunidad lose sight that gender asymmetries respond to a structural and systemic problem. 

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Published

2011-01-15