Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala - Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges

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
1.Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology, María Lugones
2.Toward a Genealogy of Experience: Critiquing the Coloniality of Feminist Reason from Latin America, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, Translation by Carlos Ulises Decena and Geo Maher
3.Constructing Feminist Methodologies from the Perspective of Decolonial Feminism, Ochy Curiel, Translation by María Elizabeth Rodríguez
4.The Question of the Coloniality of Democracy, Breny Mendoza, Translation by Rafael Vizcaíno
5.The Limits of Civic Political Imagination: Sexual citizenship, Coloniality, and Antiracist Decolonial Feminist Resistance, Iris Hernández Morales, Translation by Shawn Gonzalez
6.Public Policies on Gender Equality: Technologies of Modern Colonial Gender, Celenis Rodríguez Moreno, Translation by Verónica Dávila
7.The Killing of Women and Global Accumulation: The Case of Bello Puerto Del Mar Mi Buenaventura, Betty Ruth Loza

About the author

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 a leading decolonial feminist philosophyer and most recognized scholar in the area of decolonial feminism to date. A recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award, she was a Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, SUNY, before joining the ancestors in the summer of 2020.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Espinosa-Minoso Lugones, Maria Maldonado-Torres Lugones
• Assisted by: Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Editor), Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso (Editor), María Lugones (Editor), Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Editor), Maldonado-Torres Nelson (Editor), Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2024
• EAN: 9781538153130
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5313-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Global Critical Caribbean Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Latin America, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Feminism and feminist theory