A Decolonial Feminism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Vergès ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decolonial Feminism

Intersectionality and Epistemic Erasure: A Caution to Decolonial Feminism

Hypatia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-523
Author(s):  
K. Bailey Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Black American ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
Intersectional Theory ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

AbstractIn this article I caution that María Lugones's critiques of Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectional theory posit a dangerous form of epistemic erasure, which underlies Lugones's decolonial methodology. This essay serves as a critical engagement with Lugones's essay “Radical Multiculturalism and Women of Color Feminisms” in order to uncover the decolonial lens within Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality. In her assertion that intersectionality is a “white bourgeois feminism colluding with the oppression of Women of Color,” Lugones precludes any possibility of intersectionality operating as a decolonial method. Although Lugones states that her “decolonial feminism” is for all women of color, it ultimately excludes Black women, particularly with her misconstruing of Crenshaw's articulation of intersectionality that is rooted within the Black American feminist tradition. I explore Lugones's claims by juxtaposing her rendering of intersectionality with Crenshaw's and conclude that Lugones's decolonial theory risks erasing Black women from her framework.

scholarly journals Decolonial Approach to Leadership: Latin American Women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol D'Andrea
Keyword(s):  
Women Leaders ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
American Women ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

The absence of Latin American women in positions of authority and power is indicative of the career limitations they face. This paper examines the leadership experiences of Latin American women who are leaders and reside in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I apply a decolonial feminism approach and the concept of intersectionality to examine the intersection of race, gender, and class. Also, I employ qualitative research using 10 in-depth semi-structured, individual interviews. I find that current Latin American women leaders still face barriers that prevent them from continuing their advancement in leadership positions. These barriers include racial and gender discrimination, negative stereotypes, scarcity of networks and mentors, and the struggle to achieve a work-life balance.

Cruzando fronteras : the contribution of a decolonial feminism in organization studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana I. Paludi ◽  
Jean Helms Mills ◽  
Albert Mills
Keyword(s):  
Organization Studies ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

Berta Cáceres and Decolonial Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Ochy Curiel ◽  
Bruna Barros ◽  
Jess Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Decolonial Feminism

Reading Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters as Latina Feminist Philosophy

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-403
Author(s):  
Susan C. Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Maternal Knowledge ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Coloniality Of Gender ◽  
Decolonial Feminism ◽  
Linda Alcoff

Through an analysis of the interconnections or lack thereof between gender and epistemology, I present Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters as a text of Latina feminist philosophy. First, I use the works of Linda Alcoff and Walter Mignolo to illustrate the political nature of epistemology and how women and people of color in particular are disenfranchised from such a political endeavor. Then I examine the connections among the concepts of origin, absence, inheritance, and knowledge‐construction in García's novel to further a critique of standard epistemology and point to an emphasis on reconnection with feminine and maternal knowledge for this text's female characters. Moreover, a depiction and elaboration of María Lugones's ideas of the “coloniality of gender” and “decolonial feminism” in this novel augments this critical examination of epistemology and places emphasis on women as knowledge‐producers.

After the Hurricane: Afro-Latina Decolonial Feminisms and Destierro

Hypatia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-229
Author(s):  
Yomaira Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Postcolonial Feminism ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Decolonial Feminism ◽  
The Relationship

The first version of this piece was written for the opening panel of the 2017 Conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) in Florida. The panel, “Decolonial Feminism: Theories and Praxis,” offered the opportunity for Black and Latinx feminist philosophers and decolonial scholars to consider their arrival to decolonial feminisms, their various points of emergence, and the utility of decolonial politics for liberation movements and organizing. I was prepared to discuss some genealogies of US Latina decolonial feminisms with a focus on the relationship of decolonial feminisms to other feminist articulations—for example, a consideration of the relation and divergence between decolonial and postcolonial feminism. I was particularly interested in examining some of the “decolonizing constellations of resistance and love” created by Black, Indigenous, Latinx feminisms (Simpson 2014b). I wanted to track the intergenerational labor of relationality as a part of women of color politics and to discuss how these politics unseat coloniality in its variant iterations.

Sex work abolitionism and hegemonic feminisms: Implications for gender-diverse sex workers and migrants from Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 852-869
Author(s):  
Lua da Mota Stabile
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Decolonial Feminism ◽  
Brazilian Case

This article investigates and analyses the main characteristics and issues involving Western hegemonic feminisms, especially so-called ‘radical feminism’, on the topic of sex work and trafficking in persons/migration, to understand how these discussions have influenced the main conventions, regulations and legislation on this global subject. In particular, it enables understanding of how these regulations invisibilize and, sometimes, criminalize trans* and gender-diverse people in migratory contexts. The contributions to decolonial feminism and transfeminism made by decolonial trans writers are essential to analyse and critique some of the conceptions espoused by Western hegemonic and especially trans-exclusionary feminisms that have influenced the international anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution discourse today. These discourses often affect the voluntary migration of trans* and gender-diverse sex workers, mainly from the Global South, such as in the Brazilian case.

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