Gender, power and knowledge. For an intellectual biography from the social sciences and the gender perspective

Abstract

The author exposes her intellectual trajectory as a sociologist and feminist. It starts from a context of space and time as were the last years of Francoism and the well-known sociohistorical and political phenomenon of the Spanish Transition towards democracy (from 1975 to 1982 approximately). Among the main objectives of the text are: 1) To show a knowledge in its context; 2) Analyze the influences received and their causes (especially French sociology and American feminism); 3) To highlight certain "unnamed problems" of feminist knowledge; And 4) Promote the biographical approach, putting the emphasis on this kind of slogan: the personal is knowledge. These objectives converge in three, on the one hand, a theoretical objective: to show the social determinations of all knowledge, in our case, the binomial Gender and Knowledge production; On the other hand, a political and / or action objective: to criticize and to change certain limits of the produced knowledge and, third, to make proposals for a feminist agenda in the field of Social Sciences and of the Gender.