Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes

Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book.

Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different 'worlds.' Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the privileges of that culture. A lesbian, she experiences homophobia in both Anglo and Latino world. A woman, she moves uneasily in the world of patriarchy. Lugones writes out of multiple and conflicting subjectivities that shape her sense of who she is, resisting the demand for a unified self in light of her necessary ambiguities. Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes explores the possibility of deep coalition with other women of color, based on 'multiple understandings of oppressions and resistances'—understandings whose logic she subjects to philosophical investigation.

Chapter 1 Hablando cara a cara/Speaking Face: An Exploration of Ethnocentric Racism
Chapter 2 Structure/Anti-structure and Agency Under Oppression
Chapter 3 On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism
Chapter 4 Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Chapter 5 Hard-to-Handle Anger
Chapter 6 Purity, Impurity, and Separation
Chapter 7 Boomerang Perception and the Colonizing Gaze: ginger reflections on horizontal hostility
Chapter 8 El Pasar Discontinúo de la Cachapera/Tortillera del Barrio a la Barra al Movimiento. The discontinuous passing of the cachapera/torillera from the barrio to bar to the Movement
Chapter 9 Enticements and dangers of community and home for a radical politics
Chapter 10 Tactical-strategies of the street-walker/estratagias-tácticas de la callejera