The difficult marriage of Sociology and Feminism

Abstract

Objectives. Hegemonic sociology has erased voices from sociological feminism in order to build a masculine canon of sociological knowledge. The concealment of the feminist roots of sociology and its current conceptualizations is one of the fundamental objectives of this article. The other is to show the theoretical framework that feminist sociology has created. Methodology. The most relevant texts of feminist sociology have been exhaustively analyzed and the works of the first feminist sociologists of the 19th century, both North American and European, have been studied with the aim of finding the roots of sociological feminism and the erasure of its founders. Results and Discussion. Sociological science, including critical sociological theory, has imposed a conceptual silence, hampering the task of sociologists in their attempts to become subjects of social research, torpedoing their hypotheses and placing them on the margins of academia. Conclusions. Within critical sociology, a line of feminist research has been created with which the most recognized authors in sociology dialogue. This perspective has created an interpretive framework in order to analyze the symbolic and material structures that place women in positions of subordination. However, the challenge for sociological feminism is to understand how feminist sociology can be made against hegemonic sociology.