Revisions and Interpellations of the category of gender:

a dialogue from feminist studies and literary criticism

Abstract

The article is based on two academic experiences related to research and the teaching of an extension seminar, conducted at the National University of San Juan during 2023 and 2024. These experiences allowed us to engage with the proposals of various thinkers such as Scott, de Lauretis, Lugones, and Flores. Thus, this article aims to recover the theoretical advancements that these experiences have enabled us to achieve, as we seek to identify, review, and contrast the concept of gender and its critiques in light of feminist studies and literary criticism. From the perspective of literary criticism and the contributions of the aforementioned authors, we aim to reflect on writing practices in the construction of dissident/lesbian/queer knowledge. We adopt a methodology that challenges the category of gender from a ruminative attitude, epistemic suspicion, and questioning as epistemic sabotage. The goal pursued in this text invites us to rethink, through reading and writing practices, the semiotic foundations of gender. In this sense, we approach literary criticism from a feminist perspective, as it allows us to identify the gender codes that are reconfigured and (dis)ordered through the use of language.