[BOOK][B] Pilgrimages/peregrinajes: Theorizing coalition against multiple oppressions

M Lugones - 2003 - books.google.com
M Lugones
2003books.google.com
Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some
of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book,
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own
perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different'worlds.'Born in Argentina but living for a
number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a US citizen, nor
quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant US …
Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different'worlds.'Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a US citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant US culture, she is also an academic participating in the privileges of that culture. A lesbian, she experiences homophobia in both Anglo and Latino world. A woman, she moves uneasily in the world of patriarchy. Lugones writes out of multiple and conflicting subjectivities that shape her sense of who she is, resisting the demand for a unified self in light of her necessary ambiguities. Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes explores the possibility of deep coalition with other women of color, based on'multiple understandings of oppressions and resistances'—understandings whose logic she subjects to philosophical investigation.
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