Expanding Horizons: Knowing Community Feminism

feminism it’s everywhere. Nowadays, it is practically impossible to navigate social networks without reading something related to a given social discourse. It is by this same tendency that the subject has become moot; the perfect title for tabloid news and sections. But what if we dig under scandal and controversy? Well, not only does feminism fall into many branches, but its roots are quite interesting. And one of the most basic branches of feminism is exactly the one that goes back to the root roots: community feminism.

Returning to the ancient concepts of feminism in its purest form helps us understand it better. These days, words like “patriarchy,” “oppression,” and “violence” are used more often, but less thought about. So, in this article, we explore why communitarian feminism tells us that patriarchyIn addition to subjugating women, he oppresses all of humanity. Let’s figure out how the patriarchal mind works and what a hegemonic person is. After all, to understand the connection of violence suffered by indigenous women.

Out of respect for its origins, we must mention that this feminism arose from the struggle of indigenous peoples in abya yala (Latin America). This is some kind of opposition to white feminism, which is becoming insufficient for the interests of women around the world; diverse in race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. And that’s how feminisms were created for those women who don’t have hegemonic traits, a term we’ll discuss later.

Community feminism aims to create a community, destroying both patriarchy and colonization. The alleged patriarchy according to Noges is a system of all kinds of oppression, exploitation, violence and discrimination experienced by all of humanity (women, men and intersex) and nature, historically built on the sexual body of a woman. And to colonization as a hereditary process through which the dynamics of domination are normalized.

How many times have we not heard that patriarchy is a system in which domination is only between a man and a woman? Well, public feminism tells us that patriarchy lives on in the minds of all people. He can perpetuate himself in different bodies from different bodies. This “mind” was defined by Dr. Claudio Naranjo, a Chilean writer and psychiatrist, as patriarchal mind. Let’s take a look at some of its features:

violent powerlack of care, suppression of motherhood, dominance-submission relations, exploitation of nature, instrumentalization of living beings, superiority of intellect and reason.

The second term for understanding community feminism is the hegemonic personality. The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE) informs us that hegemony it is “the primacy which one state exercises over others.” Historically, it is very easy to identify the traits of people who have enjoyed this superiority: Caucasians, heterosexuals, and men. This is a hegemon man. A quick search for all the presidents of the United States makes it easy for us…

Very briefly: patriarchy is not the domination of a man over a woman, it is the domination of the patriarchal over the female. Without downplaying the fact that most of the people who perpetuate this patriarchal way of thinking are historically hegemonic people. This leads to violence not only against those who are not male, but also against those who do not fit his hegemonic version. With all this, the connection of violence can be discussed below.

There is a palpable vulnerability due to the simple fact that she is a woman. But what happens when I am a woman and also a native woman? We see that there are realities in which a set of traits is created that can contribute to even more suppression. For all people will, to one degree or another, have non-hegemonic ways of being, and this makes us more or less victims of the patriarchal mind. It takes us from emotional illiteracy to death itself for the mere fact of being.

To finish, let’s do a little exercise. Adriana Guzman community feminist from Bolivia, who invites us to create the following mental image: let’s think about the most discriminated man. He is a peasant, illiterate, homosexual, an orphan and an invalid. We know that social hegemony will take care of marginalizing that person in many ways. But if we presented this person as a woman and not a man, they would experience the highest degree of oppression simply for changing their sex. Then we realize that even the most oppressed man we can imagine will not be subjected to the same level of violence as a woman with the same characteristics.

Through community feminism, we can broaden our horizons in the face of constant injustice in our world. This is the importance of knowing, questioning and spreading social theories that offer us a different understanding of reality: in one way or another, it competes with all of us.

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