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A reflection on gender blindness in research and in the academy is proposed from the paper "Gender in the analysis of intimate partner violence against women: From gender 'blindness' to gender-specific research". A joint work of the whole society through alliances is suggested to modify and transcend inter-sectionally the gender blindness. It is necessary to transcend gender confrontation from the feminist movement, requiring deconstruction and redefinition of gender norms, including the redefinition of the subject of feminism. It is necessary to expand the fight against gender violence beyond violence against women by intimate partners, which, despite being one of the most significant sources of feminicide, does not exhaust violence or discrimination against women or girls on the mere fact they are women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though we are at the beginning of the 21st century there is still a blindness to gender, as it is evident in the paper that I comment: El género en el análisis de la violencia contra las mujeres en la pareja [Gender in the analysis of intimate partner violence against women]. The problem is: how are we going to be able to end with that blindness? The proposal presented here is very clear: institutionalizing generelogy, which represents a considerable advance with respect to gender studies, which would thus be coherently integrated. From this perspective, the gender goes from being a mere category of analysis (important as it has been until now) to a nationally and internationally recognized area of study, under conditions similar to those of other scientific disciplines already fully recognized, such as psychology, medicine, or sociology, among others. Some of the study nuclei of this new discipline are already being widely investigated, such as gender identities, masculinities and femininities, roles, stereotypes, status, or gender asymmetries, along with services, laws, and intervention programs whose ultimate goal is gender equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]