The personal is political, the personal is politics. Notes on the impact of the gender category in the discipline of political science

The objective of this article is to analyze some of the silences that have occurred around the development of political science, which have to do with the gender variable, and how these silences have been turning into voices that are transforming academic work, in teach-ing and research. The starting point is that political science was born as a discipline con-ceived by and for men, with a markedly androcentric and universalist character that meant that, for decades, women were absent, both in terms of its content and the possibility of developing knowledge about it. Through documentary work, focused on Latin America and, more specifically, on Mexico, some of the changes brought about by the inclusion of women in a double dimension are outlined, as subjects (subjects) and as part of the contents of politi-cal science. For this, the way in which they were occupying spaces traditionally assigned to men is analyzed, to subsequently take stock of what it meant to study women and include the gender category, forcing us to rethink basic categories of the discipline, such as those of power and the centrality of the state.