Resumen

GARGALLO, Francesca. El feminismo y su instrumentalización como fenómeno de mestizaje en nuestra América. Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.33, pp.27-36. ISSN 1316-3701.

Feminism and intermarriage are instruments of liberation from a dominant culture, as they are elements of disclosure to oppression. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were leading and caciques women who wrote their wills or left a testimony of the teachings for women of their old nations without making any claim to its own condition. Only when emancipatory feminism of anarchists, liberals and socialists of the late nineteenth century was reborn, women in Latin America became aware of their history of discrimination and that this condition could not be ignored if they wanted to deal with a women’s liberation. However, it was just in the 1970s and 1980s when Latin American feminists propelled his release from the roles assigned by the «patriarchal culture», this being a conflict that has since driven the homogenization of feminism in the institutions and thereby ratification of the imposition of a hegemonic female Americanness.

Palabras clave : Intermarriage; emancipation; power.