Tijuana, March 7.— “Working with the working-class in Mexico in the 1970s taught me that women are not a single category. Oppression and discrimination are experienced in different ways,” says Elizabeth Maier, a gender specialist at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef).
“We have different experiences as women depending on the articulation—or intersection—of gender with other dimensions such as social class, ethnic culture (the hierarchical construction of what we call race), sexual orientation… but we only realized this after a whole process of activism, reflection, research, and theorization, which in Mexico began in the 1970s, when second-wave feminism—composed of middle-class university-educated and professional women—found its public voice and began to formulate its demands.
