Theories of the flesh : Latinx and Latin American feminisms, transformation, and resistance / Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega, and José Medina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitts, Andrea J., editor.

Ortega, Mariana, editor.

Medina, José, 1968- editor.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Latin America.

Feminism.

Imperialism.

Latin America--Foreign relations.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Latinx and Latin American feminisms, transformation, and resistance

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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.

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.

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).

ISBN:

0-19-006300-9

0-19-006298-3