In this chapter, the author presents ideas about the methodological and political challenges involved in the practice of a socially engaged feminist anthropology in the contemporary Latin American context. In my experience as an academic and as an activist who has worked for more than two decades in favor of women’s rights in contexts of cultural diversity, I have had to face both the disqualifications of the positivist academy and the distrust of anti-academic activism. The reflections presented here are intended to respond to these two positions claiming the epistemological richness involved in doing research in partnership or collaboration with social movements and, at the same time, stating that social research can contribute to the development of critical thinking and the destabilization of the speeches of power, thus contributing to the struggle of the movements that work for social justice.