The The gender coloniality

contemporary agreements and disagreements about gender in Latin America

Authors

  • Felipe Cromack de Barros Correia Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO)

Abstract

The coloniality of Power, Knowing and Being were conceptualized after the 1990s with the emergence of the Modernity/Coloniality group. Thus, the reading of authors such as Aníbal Quijano, Nelson Maldonato-Torres and Walter Mignolo, as much as they were concerned with theorizing about the perpetuation of oppressions that began with the colonization of the Americas, did not provide a reading that gave importance to the gender as an element producer of hierarchies and dichotomies that we still see in Brazilian and Latin American daily life. Therefore, this five-voice debate with Maria Lugones, Gayatri Spivak, Karina Bidaseca, Rita Segato and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí seeks to analyze the different aspects that question the existence, or not, of the category “gender” before the colonial intrusion in Latin America. This dialogue does not seek to discredit or value a certain current, but to understand what were the factors that led the authors to determine their theses.

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Published

2023-02-07