Abstract

SALGADO, Martha Patricia Castañeda  and  RUIZ TREJO, Marisa. Feminist anthropologies face the pandemic in Mexico. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2022, vol.7, n.1, pp.7-30.  Epub June 01, 2022. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v7i1.1554.

In Mexico, on March 8th, 2020, thousands of feminists went out to the streets to protest against feminicides, gender and sexual violence, disappearances, and other injustices. Some days after we were obligated to lockdown in our homes. During the COVID-2020 pandemic, women were in the first line of the crisis, particularly, indigenous, Afro-descendant, poor, lesbian, trans, domestic workers women, cleaners, cookers, caregivers and many who live in the day.

In this article, we will analyze the context of the health and social emergency that is not a current crisis, but a long-time process, and that worsened with the disaster of the pandemic. In this sense, what are the challenges of feminist anthropologists face some policies that proclaim a supposed equality but that strongly affect women, depoliticize feminisms, and promote mega projects and extractivisms? How can we challenge the inconceivable government budget cuts that directly affected projects such as “Casas de la Mujer Indígena o Afromexicana” (Cami), gender alerts, health, and education? This article will reflect on the connection between inequality, public policy, and feminism in COVID-19, which generated a set of social actions in which feminist anthropologists were involved in a previously sexist, racist, classist dispossession, and extractivist context.

Keywords : feminist anthropologists; pandemic; racism; domestic work; gender based violence in universities.

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