María Lugones: “Toward a Decolonial Feminism”

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María Lugones:“Toward a Decolonial Feminism”
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Born in 1944, María Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher, activist, and academic. She was a professor of comparative literature and women’s studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and at Binghamton University in New York State. Lugones, who died in 2020, is remembered as a forceful advocate for Latina philosophy and for developing multiple models of resistance against intersectional forms of oppression in Latin America and across the globe. Her primary theoretical contribution to feminist thought and decolonial studies is her theory of “a plurality of selves.” This concept, which posits that one’s self is really a multiplicity of composite, plural, contradictory identities, allows for the existence of multiple social “worlds” and for multiple selves that interact with those “worlds.” Lugones’s work on the self and on self-knowledge are significant because of their connections with ideas of intersectionality and overlapping, interrelating forms of oppression and discrimination.

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