Now that we are together: Memories, politics, and feminist emotions

Abstract

This work develops some aspects of the feminist affective repertoire that historically crosses feminist politics and theory, within the framework of a more general reflection on the present of feminisms in Latin America. After a brief introduction that contextualizes the critical importance of emotions and memories in the reinvention of feminist politics, some debates and dialogues about the problem of disparity, conflict and differences between women are addressed as obstacles and constitutive elements of feminisms since the 1970s and 1980s. The figures of sisterhood, sorority and the practice of sexual difference are analyzed, each of which characterizes different moments and debates of feminisms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.