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.

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.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is a philosopher of modernity/coloniality and decoloniality and Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature, and Director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He also co-chairs the Frantz Fanon Foundation with Mireille Fanon Mendès France.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Espinosa-Minoso Lugones, Maria Maldonado-Torres Lugones
• Assisted by: Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso (Editor), María Lugones (Editor), Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Editor), Maldonado-Torres Nelson (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