Resumen

RIVERA, Claudia Tania  y  VERA, Héctor. Why Have There Not Been Any Great Women Sociologists? Linda Nochlin and the Feminist Challenge to the Conditions of Intellectual Production. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2026, vol.41, n.114, pp.309-344.  Epub 07-Ago-2026. ISSN 2007-8358.  https://doi.org/10.24275/ctvv6740.

To join into the debate about the reconfiguration of the sociological canon, in this article, the authors look at the critique feminist Linda Nochlin presented about the lack of great women artists; she points to the limits of the recovery of forgotten artists, emphasizing the study of institutional inequalities. In this same vein, they analyze the frameworks of canonization, proposing that the representation of women in the sociological canon comes to no more than 20 percent. To explain that ceiling, they analyze women sociologists’ autobiographical accounts to identify the obstacles that have cut short their careers: unjustified firings, jobs they were overqualified for, being slotted into non-prestigious tasks, mobility restrictions, segregated spaces, and the denial of intellectual credit. Finally, they point to five dangers in the debates about the canon: ghettoization, tokenism, the narrative of genius, the mystification of the feminine, and defensive over-compensation.

Palabras llave : sociology; canon; women; feminism; exclusion.

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