Intersectionality, a tool for popular Latin American feminism
This paper focuses on some of the debates surrounding the term intersectionality, especially those arising from Afrofeminisms and Latin American thinkers, with the intention of highlighting its genealogy linked to racialized women in an order of coloniality. This is intended to restore some of its m...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/49495 |
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| Sumario: | This paper focuses on some of the debates surrounding the term intersectionality, especially those arising from Afrofeminisms and Latin American thinkers, with the intention of highlighting its genealogy linked to racialized women in an order of coloniality. This is intended to restore some of its most transcendent elements from authors such as Mara Viveros Vigoya and María Lugones, which helps us understand the dynamics in which interlocking systems construct social subjects and how these relate and coalesce in their differences. At the same time, it seeks to dimension the value of the way in which this concept was coined through the logics that established its functioning from specific contexts where people are not affected in the same way by the systems of organization, marking, and social hierarchization, and where racialized women are producers of useful knowledge despite the intentions to institutionalize or depoliticize the idea of intersectionality. The aim of this analysis is to revisit intersectionality from its academic and political dimensions, which could support and separate its uses in some targeted public policies or narrow academic interpretations, and to embrace it as a tool that emerged from the political power of Afrofeminisms and Chicano and "of color" feminisms, to be revisited today as a starting point for analysis and action in the articulation of the broad sectors of women participating in mass feminist mobilizations across the continent. This seeks to demonstrate that it is a relevant tool for understanding and articulating differences among women through decolonial processes and with the potential to build, in the long term, a mass popular feminist project. |
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