Feminism Cannot be Single Because Women are Diverse: Contributions to a Decolonial Black Feminism Stemming from the Experience of Black Women of the Colombian Pacific

Betty Ruth Lozano, Daniela Paredes Grijalva (Corresponding author)

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    Abstract

    This article asserts that European and North American feminisms are colonial discursive elaborations that defined what it was to be a woman and a feminist. The categories of gender and patriarchy established both what the subordination of women was as well as the possibilities for their emancipation. They're colonial discourses in the sense that they have construed women of the third world, or of the global South, as “other.” The specific case examined in this article questions the Euro-US-centric feminist construction of women and Afro-descendant feminists. In resignifying the categories of analysis proposed by feminism, such as gender and patriarchy, Afro-descendant feminists assert themselves as diverse Black women who build proposals subverting the social order that oppresses them, without needing to resort to feminism's central categories. Women belonging to ethnic communities elaborate a new type of feminism constructed in relation to the community's collective actions in vindicating their rights. Finally, Black or Afro-Colombian women, based on the legacy of their maroon or runaway slave ancestors, construct feminism otherwise, challenging universalist claims by Eurocentric and Andean-centric feminism, transforming and enriching it.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)523-543
    Number of pages21
    JournalHypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy
    Volume37
    Issue number3
    Early online date18 Nov 2022
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 504014 Gender studies
    • 504008 Ethnography

    Keywords

    • decoloniality
    • Decolonial Feminism
    • Colombian Pacific
    • Intersectionality
    • Intersectional feminism
    • gender studies

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