Las amazonas o la feminización del río y la selva: fronteras y espacios de exclusión en los confines imperiales del Nuevo Mundo

Abstract

The conception and perception of the feminine in the incorporation of the Greek Amazons myth -and their later story reproduced in the medieval universe-in the "new world" allows to understand feminization as one of the mechanisms and devices of spatial-symbolic exclusion in America. The difficult task of the imperial administration and the explorers in the conquest of nature and domestication of the found spaces, contributed to the vision of the mythical warriors in America to establish the Amazonian space (the jungle and the river) as a confine in where the formation of a "civilized" world was impossible.