ABSTRACT

Latin American feminist philosophy of science is currently producing innovative contributions to international philosophies of science and their feminisms. Yet both its history and its present projects remain mostly invisible in international contexts. This essay describes both its history and some of its most important present projects, focusing especially on debates over the attempts to resurrect for today indigenous and other ancestral knowledges about gender and sexuality. In the Latin American feminist challenges to the standard modern Western ontological and epistemological tendencies, one can see the parochiality of the latter, which are still rooted in their imperial histories. These new debates give us all the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about how reliable knowledge should be produced that we can wish would have been produced -500 years ago!