Volume 2, Dossier 2 (Spring 2008) • Contents
On the De-Colonial (II): Gender and Decoloniality
Walter MIGNOLO, WKO Convenor
Introduction to the Dossier
María LUGONES, Coordinator
Articles
The Coloniality of Gender
Maria LUGONES
This paper advances and argues for the position that colonialism did not impose pre-colonial, “European” gender arrangements on the colonized. It rather imposed new gender systems that created very different arrangements for colonized males and females than for white bourgeois colonizers. Thus, it introduced many genders and gender itself as a colonial concept and mode of organization of relations of production, property relations, of cosmologies and ways of knowing. The heterosexualist patriarchy has been an a-historical framework of analysis. To understand the relation of the birth of the colonial/modern gender system to the birth of global colonial capitalism--with the centrality of the coloniality of power to that system of global power--is to understand our present organization of life anew.
Dr. Maria Lugones is the Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at the University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Lugones can be reached at marialugones@gmail.com.
Gender and Coloniality in Morocco and Southern Spain
Isabel JIMÉNEZ-LUCENA
Approaching from a perspective that takes discourse as a tool of power in arranging and shaping the ‘social body,’ Jiménez-Lucena shows the importance of looking at gender when addressing the issues of coloniality and the colonial difference in general and whenaddressing the issue of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco in particular. This reflection and analysis concentrates on the relevance of gender relations, and of women, in the medical-sanitary discourse and practices of the colonial period.
Dr. Isabel Jiménez-Lucena is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. Dr. Jiménez-Lucena can be reached at isajimenez@uma.es.
The Janus-faced Empire Distorting Orientalist Discourses: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Russia/(post)Soviet Constructions of the Orient
Madina TLOSTANOVA
Tlostanova discusses the ways the discourses of gender, race and religion intertwined and worked together in the mutant space of the Russian and Soviet empires, the subaltern empires of modernity, and in their non-European Islamic colonies, Caucasus and Central Asia. The text theoretically engages such key categories as the imperial and colonial difference and the ideas of secondary Eurocentrism and secondary Orientalism as specific products of the Russian imperial mind. The article subsequently dwells on the three phases or variants of orientalist gendered discourses, which correspond to the Romantic stage of exotic other, the pseudo-scientific race taxonomies, and the “othered” forms of rendering the colonial gender discourse in Soviet modernity.
Dr. Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Comparative Politics and Philosophy at the The People Friendship's University of Russia. Dr. Tlostanova can be reached at mydina@yandex.ru.
Documents
Women's Movement and Feminism in Central Asia: From a Not Comforting Forecast to Efficient Strategies
Svetlana SHAKIROVA
Dr. Svetlana Shakirova is the Director of the Center for Gender Studies in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Dr. Shakirova can be reached at gender@almanet.kz.
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