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Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges
This is a collection of eleven chapters and an introduction that develop 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. The introduction addresses the path of decolonial from a new approach to understanding the relationship between gender as a category, race, and colonialism that combined U.S. Third World feminism and scholarship on coloniality and decoloniality to its exponential growth in the hands of activists and engaged scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, much of the literature on decolonial feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean remains unknown in the U.S. This anthology seeks to start remedying this problem with seven translations of work originally written in Spanish, and three essays originally written in English that address the fundamental concepts of decolonial feminism as well as its contributions to important contemporary political and intellectual debates.
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Published August 1, 2022
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November 3, 2024
Feminism? Gender? Woman?
How do these European terms play from the vision of a continent where many of its original inhabitants base their existence on a human spectrum and not on a man vs woman dichotomy, on communal stewardship and not on private property, and on acknowledging that all is Nature and not on the separation human vs object? A continent whose inhabitants were/are seen as animals and as more "female" by the European invader, where "even their males (machos) have long hair, no beard, are smaller, and carry their children with them". It analyzes how we internalized the hierarchical dynamics to the detriment of our communities and lives, arriving to the point where we're at now in Abya Yala. Based on this analysis, it also addresses the question of femicides traversing the common conceptions, which normally lack context and knowledge.
It goes further and proposes a new vision, from an active and extremely strong existence and resistance, that would benefit our entire planet and not only those exploiting and to sustain their exploitative systems.
Many more interesting facts, ideas, poems and references are included within it.
I cannot recommend it enough.
How do these European terms play from the vision of a continent where many of its original inhabitants base their existence on a human spectrum and not on a man vs woman dichotomy, on communal stewardship and not on private property, and on acknowledging that all is Nature and not on the separation human vs object? A continent whose inhabitants were/are seen as animals and as more "female" by the European invader, where "even their males (machos) have long hair, no beard, are smaller, and carry their children with them". It analyzes how we internalized the hierarchical dynamics to the detriment of our communities and lives, arriving to the point where we're at now in Abya Yala. Based on this analysis, it also addresses the question of femicides traversing the common conceptions, which normally lack context and knowledge.
It goes further and proposes a new vision, from an active and extremely strong existence and resistance, that would benefit our entire planet and not only those exploiting and to sustain their exploitative systems.
Many more interesting facts, ideas, poems and references are included within it.
I cannot recommend it enough.
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