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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.
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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
The Coloniality of Gender 35
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy 59
A Decolonial Critique of Feminist Epistemology Critique 79
From the Center to the Margins, (Re)Politicizing Intersectionality 91
The Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogy of Lélia Gonzalez and Sueli Carneiro 107
Gender-Based Political Violence as a Global Phenomenon 117
An Analysis of the 11J Protests in Cuba from a Black Feminist Criminal Abolitionist Perspective 133
Territory Body - Body Territory 147
Ties that Bind 161
"Vamos destruir esse patriarcado, eu creio!" 173
Intersectional Praxis and Socio-Political Transformation at the Colombian Truth Commission in the Caribbean Region 187
Reconstructing Women's Contemporary Political Struggles across the Central American Region 201
Writing Western Nicaragua's LGBTQ+ History 215
Conceptual Tensions within a Cuir [Queer]-Feminist Sociological Approach to Sexuality in Mexico 227
"May Our Voice Echo" 239
Indigenous Literature and Ecofeminism in Brazil 249
Environmental Knowledges in Resistance 261
Set Fear on Fire! 277
Marielle Presente! 283
Feminist Activism and Constitutional Change in Chile 291
"Rap is Our Best Feminist Tool" 295
Memory, Re-Imagination and Commemoration 301
Intuitive Feminism 313
Contributors 321