  Another key debate that has emerged as a part of the broader Latin American feminist conversation on the politics of translation has been over the use of the term gender, which, as previously noted, entered the hemispheric frame with the translation of Gayle Rubin’s scholarship into Spanish. The term was translated into Spanish as género, whose direct translation is more akin to “genre” or “species”. Latin American feminists have contested the legitimacy of gender as a category of feminist analysis (Schutte &amp; Femenías 2010: 403).