Expressions of feminism in grassroots women's organizations

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the multiple expressions of feminism in women's organizations of popular sectors. The reflections are based on ethnographic stories about situations that took place within the framework of the pre-professional practices of the 5th level of the Degree in Social Work -Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Cordoba- held at the Women's Fair of Barrio 16 de Noviembre (City of Cordoba, Argentina). From this experience we seek to account for different positions and social representations on feminism. First of all, with the help of Latin American intellectuals, we intend to make critical contributions to colonial Western hegemonic feminism, which invisibilizes some expressions within the women's movement. Secondly, from the epistemic approach proposed by Latin American popular feminisms, we bet on recovering other ways of doing politics from intersectionality, which will allow us to understand the validity of patriarchal logics within women's organizations of popular sectors. Finally, located in our intervention space, we propose a synthesis of feminist pedagogy (Korol, 2016) and the counter-pedagogy of cruelty (Segato, 2018).