Interrogating Lugones: reflections on an unfinished debate
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2022v30n185070Keywords:
Intersectionality, Women of Color, Black Feminism, Coloniality of Gender, Decolonial FeminismAbstract
In this article, I outline, first, a brief genealogy of the concept of intersectionality, its relevant contributions to feminisms and its equivocal appropriations. Second, I analyze the critical reading that María Lugones makes of this concept and point to some of the limitations of her assessment.
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