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Culture, Communication, and Latina Feminist Philosophy: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jacqueline M. Martinez
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Abstract

An explication of the phenomenological sensibilities found in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and other Latina feminist philosophers offers insight into the problem of bringing philosophy into greater relevance beyond academic and scholarly worlds. This greater relevance entails clear and direct contact with the immediacy of our communicative relationships with others, both inside and outside the academy, and allows for an interrogation of the totalizing perceptions that are at work within normative processes of epistemological legitimation. As a result of this interrogation, it is possible to cultivate perceptual capacities related to culture that intervene in the normatively tacit cultural dispositions that often limit the possibilities of understanding.

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Hypatia , Volume 29 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Interstices: Inheriting Women of Color Feminist Philosophy , Winter 2014 , pp. 221 - 236
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Copyright © 2014 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Marianna Ortega and the participants in the 2011 and 2012 Roundtable on Latina Feminism for their invaluable feedback on and engagement with earlier versions of this work. I am deeply grateful for the time, energy, and commitment Marianna and the other participants brought to our gatherings. I would also like to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers whose insightful comments were essential in allowing me to bring this work to fruition.

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