Insights on a feminist ethnography of the Free Software community in Colombia

Abstract

The article presents the ethnographic insights of a woman researcher that investigates the role of a group of women inside the Free Software community in Colombia. Particularly the article questions how the ethnographic practice, from a feminist perspective, contributes to the (re)construction of gender as an analytical category on the social realities it studies.

Feminist Ethnography; Free Software Community; Feminist Subjectivity; Technology of Gender; Situated Knowledge