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Gender as Colonial Object

The spread of Western gender categories through European colonization

July 26, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

To appreciate the extent to which gender can be construed as a colonial object, it’s necessary to first understand just what a colonial object is. I understand colonial objects neither as ‘artifacts produced by indigenous peoples,’ nor as ‘artifacts that get taken up as emblematic of a particular (foreign, fetishized) way ...

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Decolonizing Epistemologies: Part 2

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

April 11, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net. This discussion is a continuation of the discussion begun in the last post, Decolonizing Epistemologies: part 1. Decolonial approach The decolonial approach to the discussion of the relationship between modernity and coloniality and how this continues ...

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What Is A Woman?

October 31, 2016 • by Sarah Chant

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I thought it would be cheeky to start this response with the question present in all the readings for this course -- “What is a woman?” -- but, feeling unsure, I decided to do what any sophisticated academic might ...

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The Postcoloniality of Gender

October 27, 2016 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. To elucidate further the connection among (post)colonialism, gender, and domination, two texts in particular come to mind: Chandra Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” from 1984 and M. Jacqui Alexander’s “Not Just (Any)Body Can Be A ...