The sounds of silence: decolonial feminist inquiries to History of historiography

The article aims to reflect upon the invisibility of the productions of female authorship in intellectual history, based on some of the challenges posed by the decolonial feminist perspective. As a starting point, I approach the paradigmatic separation manifested in the various forms of silence regarding the intellectual contributions of women, due to the persistence of a research model with a predominant focus on the study of the canonical repertoire of works by male, white and European authors. The argument to be explored is that female intellectual production has not been configured as a privileged and frequent theme of intellectual history, remaining largely as the silent, marginal and peripheral 'other' in the historiographic canons and the disciplinary memory. Finally, I point to the effectiveness of the gender category as a critical conceptual apparatus of the epistemic foundations of the discipline and of the writing of History, such as the "irrelevance" of sex, race and social class makers of the subject of the historiographical operation, implicit in the supposedly neutral, objective and universal criteria of rationality.