This book is above all a commitment to encounter. Is the research result of a Working Group (Grupo de Trabajo) of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), which brings together people who study and research, but who, above all, carry out collective actions from social organizations to transform the reality of our continent. This character of thinking doing, or rather, of doing thinking, of the Grupo de Trabajo gives this text a peculiar cadence. A cadence that demands a collective and cooperative authorship. It is also a recovery of the struggles that precede us, the sutures of the loom of memory that patriarchal and colonial capitalism strives to pierce, and that is another of the powers of this book. The book invites to dismantle the patriarchal and colonial legacies embedded in the very foundations of hegemonic academic thought, and demonstrates the urgent need to understand this as a political task of the moment. It is organized into three main stations, which, like a train journey, can be travelled through sequentially from beginning to end, or entered randomly, stopping at one or another section according to the interests and concerns of the moment. The volumes contributors are Alicia Migliaro Gonzaģlez, Ana Luciģa Ramazzini, Colectivo Magdalenas UruguayTeatro de las oprimidas, Cristina Cucuriģ, Cristina Vega, Delmy Tania Cruz Hernaģndez, Dina Mazariegos Garciģa, Elvira Cuadra Lira, Eva Vaģzquez, Gabriela Ruales, Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Giulia Marchese, Inžigo Arrazola, Ivonne Yaģnez, Jonatan Rodas, Juliana Diģaz Lozano, Lisset Coba, Lorena Rodriģguez Lezica, Manuel Bayoģn, Mariano Feģliz, Mauricio Arellano Nucamendi, Melissa Moreano, Miriam Garciģa-Torres, Miriam Lang, Rosa H.G. Govela Gutieģrrez (), Rossana Cantieri Cagnone, Sofiģa Zaragocin, and Walda Barrios-Klee (). Rosa Govela Gutiérrez and Walda Barrios-Klee died while the book was being edited.
