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Subject(s)

• Feminism—Latin America [Browse]
• Imperialism [Browse]

Editor

• Pitts, Andrea J. [Browse]

Series

Studies in feminist philosophy [More in this series]

Summary note

""A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives all fuse to create a politic born of necessity," writes activist Cherríe L. Moraga. This volume of new essays stages an intergenerational dialogue among philosophers to introduce and deepen engagement with U.S Latinx and Latin American feminist philosophy, and to explore their "theories in the flesh." It explores specific intellectual contributions in various topics in U.S. Latinx and Latin American feminisms that stand alone and are unique and valuable; analyzes critical contributions that U.S. Latinx and Latin American interventions have made in feminist thought more generally over the last several decades; and shows the intellectual and transformative value of reading U.S Latinx and Latin American feminist theorizing.The collection features a series of essays analyzing decolonial approaches within U. S. Latinx and Latin American feminist philosophy, including studies of the functions of gender within feminist theory, everyday modes of resistance, and methodological questions regarding the scope and breadth of decolonization as a critical praxis. Additionally, essays examine theoretical contributions to feminist discussions of selfhood, narrativity, and genealogy, as well as novel epistemic and hermeneutical approaches within the field. A number of contributors in the book address themes of aesthetics and embodiment, including issues of visual representation, queer desire, and disability within U. S. Latinx and Latin American feminisms.Together, the essays in this volume are groundbreaking and powerful contributions in the fields of U.S Latinx and Latin American feminist philosophy."-- Publisher website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• SECTION I Decolonial Movidas
• Chapter 1 Decolonizing Feminist Theory: Latina Contributions to the Debate
• Chapter 2 Revisiting Gender: A Decolonial Approach
• Chapter 3 From Women's Movements to Feminist Theories (and Vice Versa)
• Chapter 4 Enrique Dussel's Etica de la liberación, US Women of Color Decolonizing Practices, and Coalitionary Politics amid Difference
• Chapter 5 Decolonial Feminist Movidas: A Caribeña (Re)thinks "Privilege," the Wages of Gender, and Building Complex Coalitions
• SECTION II Making Feminist Selves
• Chapter 6 Philosophical Feminism in Latin America
• Chapter 7 Crossroads and In-​Between Spaces: A Meditation on Anzaldúa and Beyond
• Chapter 8 "Remaking Human Being": Loving, Kaleidoscopic Consciousness in Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them
• Chapter 9 African, Latina, Feminist, and Decolonial: Marta Moreno Vega's Remembrance of Life in El Barrio in the 1950s
• SECTION III Knowing Otherwise
• Chapter 10 Latin America, Decoloniality, and Translation: Feminists Building Connectant Epistemologies
• Chapter 11 Embodied Genealogies: Anzaldúa, Nietzsche, and Diverse Epistemic Practice
• Chapter 12 Between Hermeneutic Violence and Alphabets of Survival
• Chapter 13 Hallucinating Knowing: (Extra)ordinary Consciousness, More-​Than-​Human Perception, and Other Decolonizing Remedios within Latina and Xicana Feminist Theories
• SECTION IV Aesthetic Longings
• Chapter 14 Stylized Resistance: Boomerang Perception and Latinas in the Twenty-​First Century
• Chapter 15 Deracializing Representations of Femininity and the Marketing of Latinidad: Zoe Saldana and L'Oréal's True Match Campaign
• Chapter 16 Cámara Queer: Longing, the Photograph, and Queer Latinidad
• Chapter 17 Vulnerable Bodies: Juana Alicia's Latina Feminism and Transcorporeal Environmentalism.

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ISBN

• 9780190062972 (paperback)
• 0190062975 (paperback)
• 9780190062965 (hardcover)
• 0190062967 (hardcover)

LCCN

2019015805

OCLC

1100428279

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