The academy, the history of women and the historians

Abstract

We understand that gender studies aim to create and develop scientific knowledge where women are present with a new methodology that contemplates the relationships between men and women. But this knowledge should not remain stagnant in the "workshops" that make up the national or international congresses that are periodically organized, nor in the speakers invited to them. Invitation turned into a kind of dialogue of "women who speak for women about other women" and, in the worst case, into a useless and sterile soliloquy. The satisfaction of seeing how gender issues appear in the conference programs and how they are developed by those colleagues (always women) who best master them, due to their specialization and dedication over the years, can disguise reality and offer us in its instead a “mirage of equality” fabricated by the subtle way in which patriarchy and relations between men and women are sometimes manifested.