Knowledge, Gender, And Power In The Contemporary Mexican Narrative

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This dissertation studies the production of knowledge and its relationship to gender and power in contemporary Mexican narrative. Since the last decades of the twentieth century, disciplines in the humanities have questioned the ways in which knowledge has been constructed, produced and circulated and debunked notions of reason, objectivity, neutrality and autonomy promulgated by the Enlightenment. Furthermore, they have underscored the contextual nature of knowledge by stressing the significant role that sex, social class, ethnicity, race, cultural background and political affiliation, have played in knowledge production.