Manual de Educación Popular feminista

The 'Manual de Educación Popular feminista' is a guide published by Friends of the Earth International in December 2020. It provides a pedagogical framework and practical tools for feminist popular education aimed at dismantling patriarchy and achieving gender justice. The manual integrates an anti-capitalist and ecofeminist perspective, linking the exploitation of nature and territories with the oppression of women's bodies and labor.

• The document defines patriarchy as a systemic structure that oppresses and exploits women, their labor, and their bodies for the benefit of men as a social group.
• The sexual division of labor is identified as the material basis of women's oppression, creating a hierarchy where 'masculine' tasks in the public sphere and market are valued over 'feminine' domestic and care work, which is relegated to the private sphere and remains unpaid and unrecognized.
• From an ecofeminist perspective, the manual argues that the capitalist extractivist model treats both nature and women's reproductive capacities, time, and energy as unlimited resources for capital accumulation.
• The guide promotes 'feminist popular education' as a process for collective and personal growth that fosters a critical view of reality under capitalist, patriarchal, racist, colonial, and heteronormative logics, aiming for social transformation through educational action.
• Violence against women is described not as an individual act of brutality, but as a political tool of control used to maintain patriarchal power relations and deter the struggle for equality, particularly when women deviate from naturalized roles.
• The manual emphasizes intersectionality, recognizing that patriarchy intertwines with capitalism, racism, class oppression, neocolonialism, and heteronormativity, and that individuals experience varying forms of discrimination based on identity, origin, age, and other factors.
• The guide outlines a structured approach for inclusive workshops, which includes preparation, the use of 'mística' (rituals to build trust and collective strength), expectation leveling, and a variety of participatory techniques such as role-playing, brainstorming, and 'cuchicheo' (rapid exchange of opinions).
• The document proposes specific techniques to analyze gender injustice, such as the '24 hours in the life of women and men' exercise to visualize the sexual division of labor, and territorial mapping to link socio-environmental conflicts with gender-based impacts.

APA

Molina, J., & Cornils, P. (2020). Manual de Educación Popular feminista. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_Educacion-popular-feminista_Sembrar-justicia-de-genero_ES.pdf

Chicago

Molina, Johanna, and Patrícia Cornils. Manual de Educación Popular feminista. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_Educacion-popular-feminista_Sembrar-justicia-de-genero_ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{molina2020manual, author = {Molina, Johanna and Cornils, Patrícia}, title = {{Manual de Educación Popular feminista}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = dec, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_Educacion-popular-feminista_Sembrar-justicia-de-genero_ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }