Gênero, infancia e rela？？es de poder: interroga？？es epistemológicas

this article relates the peripheral positions of woman and child in the scientific field and the current epistemological difficulties towards the emancipation of childhood as a conceptually autonomous sociological category. these difficulties are similar to the resistance encountered some years ago by "feminist studies" to establish gender as a new category of analysis. childhood is a phenomenon permeated, in the social field, by asymmetric relations of power and action between generations and, in the scientific field, by the adult-focused and predominantly masculine (androcentric) perspective of knowledge.