María Lugones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Lugones |
| GIVEN NAMES | María |
| FAMILY NAME | Lugones |
| SIGNATURE | LUGONES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Part Iv
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala
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 g…
Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology
This article offers a decolonial methodology that questions the universality tied to the concept of gender. While not questioning that the modern/colonial capitalist gender system is an oppressive, variable, systemic organization of power, it argues that it is not universal; that is, that not all peoples organize their relations in terms of and on the grounds of gender. Its aim is to offer a decolonial methodology to both study colonized people w…
La colonialité du genre
Je m’intéresse à l’intersection de race, classe, genre et sexualité afin de comprendre la préoccupante indifférence que les hommes —et surtout, ce qui est plus important encore pour nos luttes, les hommes ayant été racisés comme inférieurs— manifestent à l’égard des violences systématiques infligées aux femmes de couleur. Je veux comprendre la construction de cette indifférence, de manière à la rendre inéluctablement reconnaissable par ceux qui p…
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
Esta obra colegiada tiene un encuentro luminoso con la liberación de los pueblos oprimidos. Su destino está trazado: va a convertirse en una obra de referencia y lo será cada vez más en la medida en que los años pasen. Es una obra de nuestro tiempo, en lo que nuestro tiempo ofrece de más genuina esperanza a los pueblos oprimidos, de más articulada visión de los retos de la liberación, de más consistente diseño de los caminos sentipensantes de la …
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
En este tomo II escribimos consultoras activistas, feministas pos y decoloniales, investigadores(as) activistas, activistas investigadores(as), así como profesores investigadores latinoamericanos(as), socialistas y latinoamericanistas. Cada uno(a), a nuestra manera, situamos y problematizamos nuestras prácticas de conocimiento, deteniéndonos unas en las dimensiones epistémicas, éticas, de género y de poder; otros, en las metodológicas, políticas,…
The Coloniality of Gender
I am interested in the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality in a way that enables me to understand the indifference that men, but, more importantly to our struggles, men who have been racialized as inferior, exhibit to the systematic violences inflicted upon women of color. I want to understand the construction of this indifference so as to make it unavoidably recognizable by those claiming to be involved in liberatory struggles. Thi…
Hacia un feminismo descolonial
Este artigo explora a interseção entre o feminismo e o pensamento decolonial, argumentando que uma perspectiva descolonial é crucial para entender as complexidades da opressão de gênero no contexto da colonialidade. María Lugones critica as abordagens feministas tradicionais que muitas vezes ignoram as experiências e perspectivas das mulheres do Sul Global, focando principalmente nas preocupações das mulheres brancas ocidentais. Ela defende um fe…
Rumo a um feminismo descolonial
Em Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System (2007), propus uma leitura da relação entre o colonizador e o/a colonizado/a em termos de gênero, raça e sexualidade. Com isso eu não pretendia adicionar uma leitura gendrada e uma leitura racial às já sabidas relações coloniais. Ao invés disso, eu propus uma releitura da própria modernidade capitalista colonial moderna. Isso se dá porque a imposição colonial do gênero atravessa questões so…
Musing
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Methodological Notes toward a Decolonial Feminism
María Lugones’ essay begins by reasserting the importance of understanding the inseparability of race and gender and the coalitional meaning of Women of Color: a term that reveals the self as well as reality as multiple by indicating a complex social construction that includes how Women of Color are perceived by others as inferior as well as how they reject such a construction. Lugones’ valuing of coalitional understanding and praxis emphasizes h…
Attitude joueuse, voyage d'un « monde » à d'autres et perception aimante
Ce texte tisse entre eux deux aspects de ma vie. Ma prise de conscience en tant que fille [daughter] et ma prise de conscience en tant que femme de couleur ont rendu ce tissage possible. Celui-ci révèle la possibilité et la complexité d’un féminisme pluraliste, un féminisme qui affirme la pluralité en chacune de nous et parmi nous, comme une richesse et comme des points centraux de l’ontologie et de l’épistémologie féministes. Ce texte décrit l’e…
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América
Toward a Decolonial Feminism
In "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System" (Lugones 2007), I proposed to read the relation between the colonizer and the colonized in terms of gender, race, and sexuality. By this I did not mean to add a gendered reading and a racial reading to the already understood colonial relations. Rather I proposed a rereading of modern capitalist colonial modernity itself. This is because the colonial imposition of gender cuts across questi…
Colonialidad y género
Este artigo examina a interseção entre colonialidade e gênero, argumentando que a colonialidade do poder opera por meio de uma lógica de gênero que hierarquiza e subordina certos corpos e conhecimentos. Lugones analisa como as categorias de gênero foram impostas e reconfiguradas durante o processo colonial, criando novas formas de opressão e resistência. A autora introduz o conceito de "colonialidade de gênero" para descrever a maneira como o gên…
Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System
Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System
The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Eurocentered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that Quijano terms "the coloniality of power" and "modernity." The coloniality of power introduces the basic and universal social classification of the population of the planet in terms of the idea of race, a replacing…
On Complex Communication
This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognit…
On Complex Communication
This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognit…
From within Germinative Stasis
This writing is a personal engagement with Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera as a "text,"1 a journey, that enabled me to occupy a resistant position. From within this position I learned to block the effectiveness of oppressive meanings and logics. This blocking is a constant, recurrent, first gesture in coming to understand the limits of the possible. The inhabitation of this place/vantage enables me to withdraw my energies from cementing…
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
María 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 …
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
The Inseparability of Race, Class, and Gender in Latino Studies
Commentary
Multiculturalism and Publicity
This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that María Pía Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process of achievement of self-realization and autonomy is critiqued as inconsistent with the hidden transcript/public transcript distinction. The “we” to be fashioned intersubjectively in the dialogical process of …
Toward a Decolonial Feminism
In "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System" (Lugones 2007), I proposed to read the relation between the colonizer and the colonized in terms of gender, race, and sexuality. By this I did not mean to add a gendered reading and a racial reading to the already understood colonial relations. Rather I proposed a rereading of modern capitalist colonial modernity itself. This is because the colonial imposition of gender cuts across questi…
Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System
The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Eurocentered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that Quijano terms "the coloniality of power" and "modernity." The coloniality of power introduces the basic and universal social classification of the population of the planet in terms of the idea of race, a replacing…
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is seen not as fusion and erasure of difference but as incompatible with them. Love reveals plurality. Unity–not to be confused with solidarity–is understood as conceptually tied to domination
Colonialidad y género
Este artigo examina a interseção entre colonialidade e gênero, argumentando que a colonialidade do poder opera por meio de uma lógica de gênero que hierarquiza e subordina certos corpos e conhecimentos. Lugones analisa como as categorias de gênero foram impostas e reconfiguradas durante o processo colonial, criando novas formas de opressão e resistência. A autora introduz o conceito de "colonialidade de gênero" para descrever a maneira como o gên…
Rumo a um feminismo descolonial
Em Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System (2007), propus uma leitura da relação entre o colonizador e o/a colonizado/a em termos de gênero, raça e sexualidade. Com isso eu não pretendia adicionar uma leitura gendrada e uma leitura racial às já sabidas relações coloniais. Ao invés disso, eu propus uma releitura da própria modernidade capitalista colonial moderna. Isso se dá porque a imposição colonial do gênero atravessa questões so…
Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System
Hacia un feminismo descolonial
Este artigo explora a interseção entre o feminismo e o pensamento decolonial, argumentando que uma perspectiva descolonial é crucial para entender as complexidades da opressão de gênero no contexto da colonialidade. María Lugones critica as abordagens feministas tradicionais que muitas vezes ignoram as experiências e perspectivas das mulheres do Sul Global, focando principalmente nas preocupações das mulheres brancas ocidentais. Ela defende um fe…
Purity, Impurity, and Separation
On Borderlands/La Frontera
Borderlands/La Frontera deads with the psychology of resistance to oppression. The possibility of resistance is revealed by perceiving the self in the process of being oppressed as another face of the self in the process of resisting oppression. The new mestiza consciousness is bom from this interplay between oppression and resistance. Resistance is understood as social, collective activity, by adding to Anzaldúa's theory the distinction between …
La colonialité du genre
Je m’intéresse à l’intersection de race, classe, genre et sexualité afin de comprendre la préoccupante indifférence que les hommes —et surtout, ce qui est plus important encore pour nos luttes, les hommes ayant été racisés comme inférieurs— manifestent à l’égard des violences systématiques infligées aux femmes de couleur. Je veux comprendre la construction de cette indifférence, de manière à la rendre inéluctablement reconnaissable par ceux qui p…
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala
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 g…
Musing
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Inseparability of Race, Class, and Gender in Latino Studies
On Complex Communication
This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognit…
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is seen not as fusion and erasure of difference but as incompatible with them. Love reveals plurality. Unity–not to be confused with solidarity–is understood as conceptually tied to domination
Hispaneando y Lesbiando
This review looks at Sarah Hoagland's Lesbian Ethics from the position of a lesbian who is also a cultural participant in a colonized heterosexualist culture (la cultura Nuevomejicana) within the powerful context of its colonizing heterosexualist culture (Angloamerican culture). From this position separation from heterosexualism acquires great complexity since the position described is that of a plural self. In Lesbian Ethics lesbian community is…
On Borderlands/La Frontera
Borderlands/La Frontera deads with the psychology of resistance to oppression. The possibility of resistance is revealed by perceiving the self in the process of being oppressed as another face of the self in the process of resisting oppression. The new mestiza consciousness is bom from this interplay between oppression and resistance. Resistance is understood as social, collective activity, by adding to Anzaldúa's theory the distinction between …
Purity, Impurity, and Separation
Dominant Culture
Multiculturalism and Publicity
This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that María Pía Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process of achievement of self-realization and autonomy is critiqued as inconsistent with the hidden transcript/public transcript distinction. The “we” to be fashioned intersubjectively in the dialogical process of …
Multiculturalism and Publicity
This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that María Pía Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process of achievement of self-realization and autonomy is critiqued as inconsistent with the hidden transcript/public transcript distinction. The “we” to be fashioned intersubjectively in the dialogical process of …
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
María 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 …
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
The Inseparability of Race, Class, and Gender in Latino Studies
Commentary
From within Germinative Stasis
This writing is a personal engagement with Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera as a "text,"1 a journey, that enabled me to occupy a resistant position. From within this position I learned to block the effectiveness of oppressive meanings and logics. This blocking is a constant, recurrent, first gesture in coming to understand the limits of the possible. The inhabitation of this place/vantage enables me to withdraw my energies from cementing…
On Complex Communication
This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognit…
On Complex Communication
This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognit…
Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System
Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System
The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Eurocentered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that Quijano terms "the coloniality of power" and "modernity." The coloniality of power introduces the basic and universal social classification of the population of the planet in terms of the idea of race, a replacing…
Colonialidad y género
Este artigo examina a interseção entre colonialidade e gênero, argumentando que a colonialidade do poder opera por meio de uma lógica de gênero que hierarquiza e subordina certos corpos e conhecimentos. Lugones analisa como as categorias de gênero foram impostas e reconfiguradas durante o processo colonial, criando novas formas de opressão e resistência. A autora introduz o conceito de "colonialidade de gênero" para descrever a maneira como o gên…
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América
Toward a Decolonial Feminism
In "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System" (Lugones 2007), I proposed to read the relation between the colonizer and the colonized in terms of gender, race, and sexuality. By this I did not mean to add a gendered reading and a racial reading to the already understood colonial relations. Rather I proposed a rereading of modern capitalist colonial modernity itself. This is because the colonial imposition of gender cuts across questi…
Methodological Notes toward a Decolonial Feminism
María Lugones’ essay begins by reasserting the importance of understanding the inseparability of race and gender and the coalitional meaning of Women of Color: a term that reveals the self as well as reality as multiple by indicating a complex social construction that includes how Women of Color are perceived by others as inferior as well as how they reject such a construction. Lugones’ valuing of coalitional understanding and praxis emphasizes h…
Attitude joueuse, voyage d'un « monde » à d'autres et perception aimante
Ce texte tisse entre eux deux aspects de ma vie. Ma prise de conscience en tant que fille [daughter] et ma prise de conscience en tant que femme de couleur ont rendu ce tissage possible. Celui-ci révèle la possibilité et la complexité d’un féminisme pluraliste, un féminisme qui affirme la pluralité en chacune de nous et parmi nous, comme une richesse et comme des points centraux de l’ontologie et de l’épistémologie féministes. Ce texte décrit l’e…
Musing
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rumo a um feminismo descolonial
Em Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System (2007), propus uma leitura da relação entre o colonizador e o/a colonizado/a em termos de gênero, raça e sexualidade. Com isso eu não pretendia adicionar uma leitura gendrada e uma leitura racial às já sabidas relações coloniais. Ao invés disso, eu propus uma releitura da própria modernidade capitalista colonial moderna. Isso se dá porque a imposição colonial do gênero atravessa questões so…
The Coloniality of Gender
I am interested in the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality in a way that enables me to understand the indifference that men, but, more importantly to our struggles, men who have been racialized as inferior, exhibit to the systematic violences inflicted upon women of color. I want to understand the construction of this indifference so as to make it unavoidably recognizable by those claiming to be involved in liberatory struggles. Thi…
Hacia un feminismo descolonial
Este artigo explora a interseção entre o feminismo e o pensamento decolonial, argumentando que uma perspectiva descolonial é crucial para entender as complexidades da opressão de gênero no contexto da colonialidade. María Lugones critica as abordagens feministas tradicionais que muitas vezes ignoram as experiências e perspectivas das mulheres do Sul Global, focando principalmente nas preocupações das mulheres brancas ocidentais. Ela defende um fe…
Sociology (22 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)