Abstract

ROJAS BLANCO, Clara Eugenia. La voz crítica de las académicas en la circunlocución de la retórica del menosprecio. La ventana [online]. 2017, vol.5, n.46, pp.105-142. ISSN 1405-9436.

In this text, I present a reflection focused on the urgency of not losing sight of the symbolic/discursive re/creation and re/production of gender as a structuring power of the androcentric culture in institutions of higher education, in this case in Mexico. My approach is sustained by an analysis of what I call the rhetoric of disparagement; a process of symbolic erasure of the critical voices of women academics’ at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), Mexico (2008-2012). I argue that the im/possibility of questioning the normalization of gendered practices -tacit and explicit- within the institution is mis/informed by the (aloud and silent) articulation between the rhetoric of disparagement and the rhetorical gender scaffolding, socio-historical symbolic figures in the UACJ.

Keywords : gendered culture; feminist critique; rhetoric of dismissal; higher education.