The traveling of ‘gender’ and its accompanying baggage: Thoughts on the translation of feminism(s),the globalization of discourses,and representational divides
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The traveling of ‘gender’ and its accompanying baggage: Thoughts on the translation of feminism(s),the globalization of discourses,and representational divides
This article reflects on the meaning and effects of three ongoing and simultaneous processes: the ‘globalization’ of feminism and gender discourses; the articulation of knowledge production in global structures and central locations; and the feminist dialogues between geopolitical divides such as ‘East/West’, ‘North/South’, ‘center/periphery’, and ‘indigenous/non-indigenous’. While the postwar East/West European divide is the specific focus, the article interweaves comparative elements from Latin America’s decolonial debate throughout in order to analyze the ways in which feminism as a disputed discourse can be deployed to advance both neoliberalization as well as decolonization – and decolonization not only of feminism’s discourses, but of capitalist modernity’s discourses themselves.
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