FEMINIST PATHS: Sentimental wanderings in academia and during the pandemic

Feminist paths invites us to travel the intellectual and professional paths that the author has traveled as a feminist, sociologist and ethnographer, from her beginnings at the end of the twentieth century, until the dawn of the decade that awoke with the pandemic that would take the world by surprise in the new millennium. And in this professional journey are interwoven, page after page, both academic publications and emotive texts of creative writing, all inspired by the heart with reason of the epistemologies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and the sentimental spirit of the Colombian fishermen that moved the respected sociologist Orlando Fals Borda.

Depatriarchalizing both heart and reason is the lifeblood of this volume and places it in the academic tradition, both in the United States and in Latin America, that has incorporated such a perspective in various fields of knowledge, thus recognizing the intimate relationship between thinking, feeling and social commitment in our intellectual and professional endeavors. The tireless exploration of authenticity to the fullest, as well as intellectual vulnerability as a source of strength and inner transformation, are the living essence of this collection.