cumpli a os en Despu s del n mero Marta

cumplió 25 años en 2014. Después del número 50, Marta Lamas, su fundadora y directora hasta ese momento, había decidido concluir el ciclo de la revista. No obstante, conscientes de la enorme importancia del proyecto y del reconocimiento que había logrado tanto en México como en Latinoamérica, las integrantes del comité editorial propusieron que no se cerrara, sino que fuese adoptado por una institución académica. Fue así como se le presentó al Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género (PUEG) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) la oportunidad de hacerse cargo tanto de su acervo histórico como de su publicación, y no dudamos ni por un momento en que recibir es un verdadero privilegio para la UNAM. La transición ha implicado una serie de cambios. El más relevante atañe a su propia definición: de ser una revista con una diversidad de contribuciones —teóricas, literarias, artísticas—, pasa ahora a formar parte del conjunto de revistas académicas y científicas de la UNAM. Esto significa que sus contenidos se someten a dictamen por pares; es decir, desde el número 51, que ahora presentamos, asume criterios de rigor académico para abonar a los Estudios de Género como un campo fundamental del conocimiento en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
Introduction In everyday language, we talk about gender on the small scale: intimate relationships, personal identities, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters. But some issues oblige us to think on a larger scale. The multiple femicides in Cd. Juárez, for instance, make little sense if we think only about intimate relationships. The events become more meaningful, though no less horrifying, when we expand the picture to the under-resourced and insecure communities of the Frontera Norte, the neoliberal maquila economy, the local violence because of the drug traffic, the complicity of the state, and the wider context of violence and militarization across the regions and the continents connected with these PR-619 manufacturer events (Cruz, 2013).
Thinking gender globally There is valuable research literature already available about ‘gender and globalization’, and ‘gender and neoliberalism’ (e.g. Bose & Kim, 2009; Naples & Desai, 2002). But in these debates, and in the discourse of international liberal feminism found in documents from UN Women, there is a strong tendency to see globalization or neoliberalism as one thing, and gender or patriarchy as another, in a quite separate manner. This is an old problem in feminist theory. Classics such as Heleieth Saffioti\'s A mulher na sociedade de classes(1969) offered a powerful analysis of the interplay between class and gender since the colonial period, but presupposed a capitalist class system that was logically prior to the gender effects. Feminists in the United States formulated dual systems theory, resting on what Zillah Eistenstein (1979, p. 5) called ‘the mutually reinforcing dialectical relationship between capitalist class structure and hierarchical sexual structuring’, or more plainly, the ‘interdependence of capitalism and patriarchy’. In the more recent enthusiasm for the idea of ‘intersectionality’, the idea of a dialectical relationship has been abandoned. Gender, race, class, nationality, etc. are separate ways of categorizing people, which have no logical interconnection. They simply ‘intersect’ or cross-classify with each other. The cross-classifying adds to some people\'s disadvantage and other people\'s privilege. (That was the original purpose of the concept of intersectionality, to seek redress in US court cases.) To think about the global dimension of gender, we certainly have to think about the capitalist world order, and try to understand race, class, and nation. But we do not have to be limited by such a weak form of theory. A better approach will be to consider how gender itself is global, and how neoliberal capitalism and its class and race configurations are organized through gender as well as interacting with gender relations.