Gayle Rubin

  

    A person that I admire within anthropology in Gayle Rubin. She was born in 1949. Rubin is a US cultural anthropologist, better known as an activist and an influential theorist on sex and gender policy. 

    One of his most important essays is: “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex”. In this essay Gayle Rubin explains very well the fact that the gender is a social construction that determines the ways of being male and female. So, she says that this division gives rise to the oppression of women. In her analysis Gayle Rubin argues that the relationships between sex and gender make up a "system that varies from society to society," establishing that the place of oppression of women and sexual minorities is in what she calls the sex / gender system. 

   

    I'm interested in Gayle Rubin because she is one of the few women anthropologists who do theory and who do it from feminism, and because I think it's important to know that there is no single way to be a man and a woman, or roles that must be met to be male or female.

Photography

This photography was taken by Marcelo Montecino. This is a photo that causes me a lot of pain, because it shows the history of the "cueca alone". This is a dance that began the family women of detainees disappeared during the military dictatorship, and who presented for the first time in the first act of the day of women celebrated in dictatorship, in 1979 in the caupolican theater. As we can see in the photography, this dance it was characterized because the women sangs, while one of them went out to dance the cueca, but in all these dances the woman did not have a partner to dance. They put a photo in your chest that showed their husband disappeared. The cueca is transformed into a sign of sadness and it was no longer a reason to celebrate. This is a photo that I would like to rescue because it tells a story of how important women were in resistance to the dictatorship.

Feminism

This post corresponds to session three. On this occasion I would like to talk about feminism, since we are mobilizing on this issue. Feminism came to my life at a very hard time and taught me to relate better to myself and also to my partners. Feminism has taught me that we often endure violence out of fear, but that within us is the courage to say no, not to endure violence anymore.

The university is a place where the patriarchal logics of society are reproduced, we can see it in the classes and in the relations with teachers and classmates. That is why it is important that we change these logics.

This is why this mobilization is so important, since it marks a milestone towards the strengthening of a university and a feminist society. I thank all my colleagues who today dare to fight to end patriarchy.