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This book provides an introduction to the key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly, the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms, the imbrication between gender, race, and colonialism, feminicides, and the coloniality of democracy and public institutions.
List of contents
Decolonial Feminism: Editors' Introduction, by Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, María Lugones, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology, María LugonesToward a Genealogy of Experience: Critiquing the Coloniality of Feminist Reason from Latin America, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, Translation by Carlos Ulises Decena and George Ciccariello-MaherConstructing Feminist Methodologies from the Perspective of Decolonial Feminism, Ochy Curiel, Translation by María Elizabeth RodríguezThe Question of the Coloniality of Democracy, Breny Mendoza, Translation by Rafael VizcaínoThe Limits of Civic Political Imagination: Sexual citizenship, Coloniality, and Antiracist Decolonial Feminist Resistance, Iris Hernández Morales, Translated by Shawn GonzalezPublic Policies on Gender Equality: Technologies of Modern Colonial Gender, Celenis Rodríguez Moreno, Translation by Verónica DávilaThe Killing of Women and Global Accumulation: The Case of Bello Puerto Del Mar Mi Buenaventura, Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma, Translation by Carolina Alonso-BejaranoNotes on the Coloniality of Militarization and Feminicidal Violence in Abya Yala, Sarah Daniel and Norma Cacho, Translation by Jennifer VilchezThis Knowledge Counts! Harmony and Spirituality in Miskitu Critical Thought, Jessica Martínez-CruzFighting for Life with Our Feet on the Ground: Anticolonial and Decolonial Wagers from Indigenous and Campesina Women in Mexico, Carmen Cariño Trujillo, Translated by Amanda González IzquierdoResisting, Re-existing, and Co-existing (De)spite the State: Women's Insurgencies for Territory and Life in Ecuador, Catherine Walsh
About the author
Brief Author Bio
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso is associate professor and adjunct researcher, FLACSO-Dominican Republic and Argentina and academic coordinator and professor in the Online Program for Andean Thought and Decolonial Feminism, GLEFAS/IDECA. Researcher GLEFAS.
María Lugones was professor in the departments of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies. Binghamton University, SUNY. She was the most recognized scholar in the area of decolonial feminism and the recipient of a Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. She passed away in the summer of 2020.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is professor in the department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature. He is also Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature, director of Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies and Co-chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation.
Summary
This book provides an introduction to the key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly, the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms, the imbrication between gender, race, and colonialism, feminicides, and the coloniality of democracy and public institutions.
