Abstract

GUTIERREZ VARGAS, José Ricardo. Gender and gaze: the invisibility of knowledge produced by women in Mexico. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.92, pp.157-188.  Epub Mar 18, 2022. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/922022/aot1/gutierrezvargasj.

This work establishes a relation between gender and representation in order to shed light over an epistemic gaze that tends to conceal the knowledge produced by women and override their role as knowing subjects. In this regard, the article analyzes, using the concept “coloniality of seeing”, the representation made, through the exhibition“Femicide in Mexico” (2017) at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City, of a group of activism women from the urban outskirts. This approach facilitates to observe how the curatorial use of a set of photographs triggered an epistemic injustice that excluded these women´s voices from the knowledge/power field that was shaped by the exhibit. Thus, the article posits that collective recognition of women´s lives, within the context of femicide violence, is sustain by the ways those lives are narrated and framed by women´s actions and words.

Keywords : femicide; museum; coloniality; modernity; representation.