Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala

This book provides an introduction to the 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.

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 feminism: 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.

Decolonial Feminism: Editors’ Introduction, by Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, María Lugones, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres

1. Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology, María Lugones
2. Toward a Genealogy of Experience: Critiquing the Coloniality of Feminist Reason from Latin America, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, Translation by Carlos Ulises Decena and Geo Maher
3. Constructing Feminist Methodologies from the Perspective of Decolonial Feminism, Ochy Curiel, Translation by María Elizabeth Rodríguez
4. The Question of the Coloniality of Democracy, Breny Mendoza, Translation by Rafael Vizcaíno
5. The Limits of Civic Political Imagination: Sexual citizenship, Coloniality, and Antiracist Decolonial Feminist Resistance, Iris Hernández Morales, Translation by Shawn Gonzalez
6. Public Policies on Gender Equality: Technologies of Modern Colonial Gender, Celenis Rodríguez Moreno, Translation by Verónica Dávila
7. The Killing of Women and Global Accumulation: The Case of Bello Puerto Del Mar Mi Buenaventura, Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma, Translation by Carolina Alonso Bejarano
8. Notes on the Coloniality of Militarization and Feminicidal Violence in Abya Yala, Sarah Daniel and Norma Cacho, Translation by Jennifer Vilchez
9. This Knowledge Counts! Harmony and Spirituality in Miskitu Critical Thought, Jessica Martínez-Cruz
10. Fighting for Life with Our Feet on the Ground: Anticolonial and Decolonial Wagers from Indigenous and Campesina Women in Mexico, Carmen Cariño Trujillo, Translation by Amanda González Izquierdo
11. Resisting, Re-existing, and Co-existing (De)spite the State: Women’s Insurgencies for Territory and Life in Ecuador, Catherine Walsh