Abstract

BLANCO, Rafael. From brightness to disenchantment. Challenges for academic feminism in the brief experience of Women’s Studies Program (University of Buenos Aires). Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx. [online]. 2018, vol.4, e159.  Epub Feb 19, 2018. ISSN 2395-9185.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eg.v4i0.159.

With the aim of identifying some of the challenges of incorporating feminist training programs in public universities, this article reconstructs a pioneering experience of academic feminism in the 1980s in Argentina: the Interdisciplinary Career in Women's Studies (University of Buenos Aires [UBA]). Methodologically, interviews were conducted with graduates, teachers and deans. Additionally, various primary and secondary documents were analyzed. As results, we present the difficulty of the interdisciplinary approach in a disciplinary institution, the conflicts between the previous formative trajectories and the renewed student position, and the conflicts between the university hierarchies and the horizontal dynamics of the feminist study groups. In the conclusions a balance of the Career is made in order to establish possible points of comparison with other local and regional experiences.

Keywords : feminism; gender studies; academy; activism; knowledge.