The Ice Again: Epistemic Exclusion of Feminisms in Academic Spaces
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2025
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The Feminist Press
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In this essay, we ask ourselves about the material conditions that enable the creation of feminist knowledge, its advances and marginalizations interwoven in neoliberal, racist, and heterocispatriarchal academia. Based on a study of gender and knowledge from a feminist perspective (2021–24), this article elaborates a collective account from researchers on theepistemic exclusion of gender and feminisms in Chilean and Argentinian academic spaces. This account, narrated in the first person and constructed out of quotations from researchers of gender and feminism, moves between the individual and the collective, politicizing gender issues to concretize the forms of epistemic exclusion in a delocalized way. Not only is this exclusion manifested in direct violations against people, but it is also structurally located, such as in the impossibility of mainstreaming frameworks of gender into curricula and in the difficulties of obtaining funding or negatively associating these perspectives with activism. Amid the international advance of the far right, it is urgent to discuss the epistemic status of feminist knowledge in academia.
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Epistemic exclusion, Feminisms, Gender, Academia, Knowledge