Gendered Memories in Colombia: An Approach to Community Spaces for Memory Reconstruction by Women.

Abstract

This work addresses —from the socio-legal paradigm with a feminist approach— the links between the reconstruction of collective memory and gender in Colombia. Through focus groups with women leaders of memory processes and the case study of Mampuján Weavers, we inquire about the reconstruction of gendered memories to analyze common factors in their initiatives. Although these factors are enunciated from different places, they converge in positions facing the politicization of care, the centrality of the body, and the use of art, listening and dignification of the other, as alternatives to hegemonic and masculinized memories.