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This article discusses advances in the anthropology of women in Chiapas and Central America, an area in which the pioneers in this field helped to denounce androcentrism, elucidated gender relations, and chose the subordination of women as an anthropological research problem. Their actions increasingly helped shape a feminist gender perspective within the discipline. This article registers, documents, and analyzes the life and work of women and feminists who have made scientific-social contributions with respect to cultural diversity, social spaces and inequality, covering the "golden age" (1940-1964) up to the second decade of the 20th century, focusing on the contributions of June Nash and Mercedes Olivera Bustamante, two anthropologists whose work has been key to the discipline in this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]