A propósito de la categoría género: leer a Joan Scott
This article is to Joan Scott’s contribution to the contemporary feminist thought. From his early work, Scott moved the question in the cause or the reason for the exclusion of women in history and everyday experience, and redirects to the how it happens. She reveals its mechanisms and develops the perspective of gender from different disciplines that continues to this day. In this sense, we rescued the ensuing discussion about the status of women, whose nucleus is organized from a review of Scott’s proposal. To do this, we rely on two existing currents of contemporary academic debate: the postcolonial, based on a critique to the Western feminism, and postmodern, represented by the early work of Judith Butler, who from a position es- sentially philosophical and psychoanalytic radically questions the category of gender and its place in the construction of subjective identities.