De las mujeres al género y más allá: las entretejidas trayectorias de la historia de las mujeres y los estudios feministas

Abstract

In the 1980s Women’s/Gender/Studies and Women’s/Gender/History seemed closer to each other than they subsequently have become. Here I ask, Can Women’s/Gender/Feminist Studies be historicized and can history be theorized by queer and feminist theory in ways that illuminates the past on its own terms and not merely speak to the present or the future? I consider citational practices and subfields in light of larger intellectual trends, especially work in Black feminism. Exploring this question, I turn to how each field thinks about time and the archive, terms that function as analytics to illuminate questions of power and authority, identity and agency, but deployed by interdisciplinary feminist scholars in ways not always legible to traditional historians. I end with both reconciliation and alternative endings in light of attacks on both fields.