Female Bodies / Feminized Territories: The Conquest Consequences in Mapuce Women in Neuquén 1

The undeniable indigenous presence in the province of Neuquen, in the Northern Patagonia region of Argentina, has resulted in a vast number of academic productions on the subject, however, mapuce 2 women have been invisibilized systematically. Even, sometimes, gender studies have sinned of Eurocentric view for not expliciting in their analysis the links between different dimensions and shape traversing the reality of these other subaltern. We consider that non-white women suffer a situation of oppression, present for centuries, as a consequence of the gender, ethnicity and class intersection, as well as colonialism and patriarchy founding of the Nation State. As such, in this article we propose to reflect on some Academy omissions, casting light on these other stories little told from political science and local gender studies. To do this, we will use information obtained from our fieldwork in communities (lofce) Mapuce. Thus, we propose to consider the consequences that brought the conquest and colonization of the traditional social order and how this has impacted on the current situation of indigenous women.