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Ethnocentrism and Coloniality in Latin American Feminisms: The Complicity and Consolidation of Hegemonic Feminists in Transnational Spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
Abstract
This article applies the theses of Chandra Mohanty and Gayatri Spivak to Latin America in order to advance criticisms of discursive colonization by Western feminisms. It also provides an analysis “from within” to observe the coloniality of feminism in Latin America, denouncing its white-bourgeois origin and its collaboration with hegemonic Northern feminisms. It seeks to show how, since the 1990s, hegemonic feminism in Latin America has been complicit in projects of recolonization of the subcontinent by the central countries in the production of a subaltern subject, “the female other of the female other.”
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- Feminism in Translation
- Information
- Hypatia , Volume 37 , Special Issue 3: Decolonial Feminism in Latin Améfrica: An Essential Anthology , Summer 2022 , pp. 498 - 509
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation
Footnotes
This article was first published as: Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso. 2009. Etnocentrismo y colonialidad en los feminismos latinoamericanos: Complicidades y consolidación de las hegemonías feministas en el espacio transnacional. Feminismo latinoamericano, Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer 14(33): 37–54.
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