Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Feminisms in Movement

Theories and Practices from the Americas

Edited by: Lívia De Souza Lima , Edith Otero Quezada and Julia Roth

In the series Gender Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839461020

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About this book

Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With their diverse backgrounds, these movements address sexism, sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate crisis, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation as well as the interrelations of these systems. Fighting interlocking axes of oppression, feminists from the Americas represent, practice, and theorize a truly »intersectional« politics. Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas brings together a wide variety of perspectives and formats, spanning from the realms of arts and activism to academia. Black and decolonial feminist voices and queer/cuir perspectives, ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women's mobilizations inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects.

With contributions from Rita Laura Segato, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, and interviews with Anielle Franco (Brazilian activist and minister) and with the Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS.

Author / Editor information

Lívia De Souza Lima is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld and a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Her main research focus lies in the intersection of gender and political representation, in which she works with Black and decolonial feminist perspectives.
Edith Otero Quezada is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies and research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Research (IZG) at Universität Bielefeld. She was a scholarship holder of the German Foundation Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2017-2020). Her research interests are feminist epistemologies, political subjectivity, guerrillas and social movements, especially in Central America and Latin America.
Julia Roth is a professor of American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld, where she is also PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender«. Her research interests are gender approaches, intersectionality theorizing, gender and citizenship, right-wing populism and gender, migrant knowledges and new feminist movements.

Reviews

"This is an essential book because it includes the voices of those who make, think and nurture the feminist movement in all its heterogeneity, free from patriarchal and colonial distinctions between practice and knowledge. It is also an expansive map of experiences of what it means that feminisms are in movement: rising up to change everything." (Verónica Gago, feminist activist and professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de San Martín)

O-Ton: »Feminismen in den Amerikas in Bewegung« - Julia Roth, Lvia de Souza Lima und Edith Otero Quezada in Welthausinfo, 33 (2024).
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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Julia Roth, Edith Otero Quezada and Lívia de Souza Lima Open Access Download PDF	9
Part I Theorizations and Epistemic Dialogues
The Coloniality of Gender María Lugones Open Access Download PDF	35
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy Expansion of the State Front, Modernization, and the Lives of Women Rita Laura Segato Open Access Download PDF	59
A Decolonial Critique of Feminist Epistemology Critique Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso Open Access Download PDF	79
From the Center to the Margins, (Re)Politicizing Intersectionality Mara Viveros Vigoya Open Access Download PDF	91
The Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogy of Lélia Gonzalez and Sueli Carneiro Lívia de Souza Lima Open Access Download PDF	107
Gender-Based Political Violence as a Global Phenomenon Latin-American Pioneerism, the Brazilian Exception, and the Silence of the Global North Ligia Fabris Open Access Download PDF	117
An Analysis of the 11J Protests in Cuba from a Black Feminist Criminal Abolitionist Perspective Sandra Heidl Open Access Download PDF	133
Territory Body – Body Territory Julieta Paredes Carvajal Open Access Download PDF	147
Part II Embodied Experiences and Knowledge Productions
Ties that Bind Black Women Candidates and Familial Influence on Political Socialization in the US Nadia E. Brown and India S. Lenear Open Access Download PDF	161
“Vamos destruir esse patriarcado, eu creio!” Inter-American Networks and Articulations of Feminism on Social Media Saskia Bante Open Access Download PDF	173
Intersectional Praxis and Socio-Political Transformation at the Colombian Truth Commission in the Caribbean Region Audes Jiménez González and Juliana González Villamizar Open Access Download PDF	187
Reconstructing Women’s Contemporary Political Struggles across the Central American Region Edith Otero Quezada and Fátima Elizondo Rodríguez Open Access Download PDF	201
Writing Western Nicaragua’s LGBTQ+ History Tiangues, Indigeneity, and Survivance Victoria González-Rivera Open Access Download PDF	215
Conceptual Tensions within a Cuir [Queer]-Feminist Sociological Approach to Sexuality in Mexico César Torres-Cruz and Hortensia Moreno-Esparza Open Access Download PDF	227
“May Our Voice Echo” Housemaids’ Narratives in Eu, Empregada Doméstica Larissa Satico Ribeiro Higa Open Access Download PDF	239
Indigenous Literature and Ecofeminism in Brazil Anna-Lena Glesinski Open Access Download PDF	249
Environmental Knowledges in Resistance Mobilization, (Re)Production, and the Politics of Place. The Case of the Cooperativa Mujeres Ecologistas de la Huizachera, Jalisco (Mexico) Daniela Gloss Nuñez and Itxaso García Chapinal Open Access Download PDF	261
Part III Feminist Conversations
Set Fear on Fire! A Conversation with the Collective LASTESIS on Aesthetic, Performance and Feminist Resistant Practices Edith Otero Quezada and Lívia de Souza Lima Open Access Download PDF	277
Marielle Presente! Defending the Memory and Legacy of Marielle Franco in Brazil. An Interview with Anielle Franco Lívia de Souza Lima, Julia Roth and Edith Otero Quezada Open Access Download PDF	283
Feminist Activism and Constitutional Change in Chile A Conversation with María José Oyarzún Solís Nicole Schwabe Open Access Download PDF	291
“Rap is Our Best Feminist Tool” Interview with the Cuban Hip Hop Duo La Reyna y La Real Julia Roth Open Access Download PDF	295
Memory, Re-Imagination and Commemoration Bridging Academia and Activism. An Interview with Afua Cooper Safa Al-Dilaimi Open Access Download PDF	301
Intuitive Feminism María Galindo Open Access Download PDF	313
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	321

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 332
Keywords: Americas; Social Movements; Gender; Intersectionality; Postcolonialism; Politics; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Latin America

eBook

Published: December 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839461020