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 gender as a category, race, and colonialism that combined U.S. Third World feminism and scholarship on coloniality and decoloniality to its exponential growth in the hands of activists and engaged scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, much of the literature on decolonial feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean remains unknown in the U.S. This anthology seeks to start remedying this problem with seven translations of work originally written in Spanish, and three essays originally written in English that address the fundamental concepts of decolonial feminism as well as its contributions to important contemporary political and intellectual debates.
Yuderkys Espinosa-Minoso is associate professor and adjunct researcher, FLACSO-Dominican Republic and Argentina and academic coordinator and professor in the Online Program for Andean Thought and Decolonial Feminism, GLEFAS/IDECA. Researcher GLEFAS. Maria Lugones was a leading decolonial feminist philosophyer and most recognized scholar in the area of decolonial feminism to date. A recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award, she was a Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, SUNY, before joining the ancestors in the summer of 2020. Nelson Maldonado-Torres is a philosopher of modernity/coloniality and decoloniality and Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature, and Director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He also co-chairs the Frantz Fanon Foundation with Mireille Fanon Mendes France.
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges provides a robust framework. As editors Yuderkys Espinosa-Minoso, Lugones, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres write, the volume offers "a glimpse into a rich variety of approaches, voices, questions, and contributions that are part of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx decolonial feminism...." [This book] has the potential to catalyze solidarity beyond borders, illustrating the possibilities of what the editors call "the world that we want and to which we belong." -- "NACLA Report on the Americas"
