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Subaltern Epistemologies: Indigenous and Mestiza Women in the Reconstruction of Knowledge from the Margins

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No. 20 (2025): Agosto-Diciembre 2025
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2025.80157
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This article analyzes how Western hegemonic feminism has reproduced colonial logics by universalizing the experience of white women as the normative subject, thereby rendering invisible the experiences, knowledge, and resistance of Indigenous and mestiza women. Drawing from a critical epistemology rooted in the margins, it examines the symbolic and ontological effects of this hegemony, as well as the forms of resistance embodied in language, the body, and memory. The article employs a hermeneutic approach to key authors of decolonial thought such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorena Cabnal, Aura Cumes, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso. It also incorporates internal critiques of mestizaje as a political category. The article concludes that decolonial feminism enables the reconfiguration of epistemic frameworks from the margins, recognizing racialized women as epistemic subjects. This work seeks to contribute to the expansion of the theoretical horizon of Latin American feminism from a decolonial perspective.

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decolonial feminism, mestizaje, indigenous women, body-territory.
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Báez-Alarcón, A., & Fattah-Jeldres, J. (2025). Subaltern Epistemologies: Indigenous and Mestiza Women in the Reconstruction of Knowledge from the Margins. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (20). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2025.80157
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Universidad de Chile
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