FEMINISM IN TRANSLATION The Woman and Her Obscure Versions 1,2 Celenis Rodríguez Moreno Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios, Formación y Acción Feminista, GLEFAS. 45a 25a-35 Street, Apartment 302. Bogotá, Colombia Corresponding author. Email: cero30@gmail.com Translated by Alejandro Montelongo González Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. Av. Universidad 940, 20100. Aguascalientes, Mexico (Received 28 February 2021; revised 8 May 2022; accepted 9 May 2022) Abstract The objective of this article is to analyze the production of the subject Woman by review- ing some practices, discourses, and technologies promoted by the state, the church, and elites. It is important to emphasize that in most research about women or femininity, female subjectivity appears tightly linked to sexual difference. However, in this work I want to show that the notion of Woman is co-determined by race and class. The experi- ence characteristic of such representation was possible only for a small group of white and bourgeois women. Others—Indian, black, and mestiza “women”—could hardly account for a social experience comparable to the Western narrative about woman. Nevertheless, processes of homogenization allow these others to be classified and disci- plined according to the gender norm, yet without altering the prejudices and inequalities produced by the prevailing racist and classist system, which implies the production of other female subjectivities, of other “women.” Introduction The objective of this article is to analyze the production of the subject Woman by reviewing some practices, discourses, and technologies promoted by the state, the church, and elites. It is important to emphasize that in most research about women or femininity, female subjectivity appears tightly linked to sexual difference. However, in this work I want to show that the notion of Woman is co-determined by race and class. The experience characteristic of such representation was possible only for a small group of white and bourgeois women. Others—Indian, black, and mestiza “women” 3 —could hardly account for a social experience comparable to the Western narrative about woman. Nevertheless, processes of homogenization allow these others to be classified and disciplined according to the gender norm, yet without altering the prejudices and inequalities produced by the prevailing racist and classist system, which implies the production of other female subjectivities, of other “women.” © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation Hypatia (2022), 37, 566–581 doi:10.1017/hyp.2022.34 https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.34 Published online by Cambridge University Press