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Summary:

This volume brings together many prominent philosophical voices today focusing on issues of US Latinx and Latin American identities and feminist theory. As such, the essays collected here highlight the varied and multidimensional aspects of gender, racial, cultural, and sexual questions impacting US Latinx and Latin American communities today. The collection also highlights a number of important threads of analysis from fields as diverse as disability studies, aesthetics, literary theory, and pop culture studies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• SECTION I Decolonial Movidas
• Chapter 1 Decolonizing Feminist Theory: Latina Contributions to the Debate
• Chapter 2 Revisiting Gender: A Decolonial Approach
• Chapter 3 From Women's Movements to Feminist Theories (and Vice Versa)
• Chapter 4 Enrique Dussel's Etica de la liberación, US Women of Color Decolonizing Practices, and Coalitionary Politics amid Difference
• Chapter 5 Decolonial Feminist Movidas: A Caribeña (Re)thinks "Privilege," the Wages of Gender, and Building Complex Coalitions
• SECTION II Making Feminist Selves
• Chapter 6 Philosophical Feminism in Latin America
• Chapter 7 Crossroads and In-​Between Spaces: A Meditation on Anzaldúa and Beyond
• Chapter 8 "Remaking Human Being": Loving, Kaleidoscopic Consciousness in Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them
• Chapter 9 African, Latina, Feminist, and Decolonial: Marta Moreno Vega's Remembrance of Life in El Barrio in the 1950s
• SECTION III Knowing Otherwise
• Chapter 10 Latin America, Decoloniality, and Translation: Feminists Building Connectant Epistemologies
• Chapter 11 Embodied Genealogies: Anzaldúa, Nietzsche, and Diverse Epistemic Practice
• Chapter 12 Between Hermeneutic Violence and Alphabets of Survival
• Chapter 13 Hallucinating Knowing: (Extra)ordinary Consciousness, More-​Than-​Human Perception, and Other Decolonizing Remedios within Latina and Xicana Feminist Theories
• SECTION IV Aesthetic Longings
• Chapter 14 Stylized Resistance: Boomerang Perception and Latinas in the Twenty-​First Century
• Chapter 15 Deracializing Representations of Femininity and the Marketing of Latinidad: Zoe Saldana and L'Oréal's True Match Campaign

• Chapter 16 Cámara Queer: Longing, the Photograph, and Queer Latinidad
• Chapter 17 Vulnerable Bodies: Juana Alicia's Latina Feminism and Transcorporeal Environmentalism
• Index.

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Contributors:

Pitts, Andrea J. , editor

Ortega, Mariana , editor

Medina, José, 1968- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy

Subjects:

Feminism — Latin America

Imperialism

Latin America — Foreign relations

General Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 18, 2020).

Audience:

Specialized.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HQ1460.5 .T46 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780190063009 (ebook)
0190063009
9780190062989 (electronic bk.)
0190062983 (electronic bk.)
9780190062972 [Invalid]
0190062975 [Invalid]
9780190062965 [Invalid]
0190062967 [Invalid]
9780190062996 (online)
0190062991
9780198297369 (online)
019829736X
9780199251247 (online)
019925124X

OCLC Numbers:

1141418176