  During this time, Latin American feminisms began to privilege the use of the category gender or the gender perspective over patriarchy as the conceptual framework from which to talk about the situation of women. The shift to using language of gender is largely owed to the importation of North American feminist ideas. In the Latin American context, Gayle Rubin’s work received substantial attention as evidenced by numerous translations as well as by extensive commentary on its complex understanding of the sex/gender system (Gargallo 2004: 21). However, it is important to note that the term was already being deployed by scholars and carried with it a variety of connotations (Schutte 1998b: 88).