Tip: Search results and category listings are restricted by the filters on the right hand side of the page. Not all entries are shown by default. (Okay, got it)

1. Maria Lugones (2007). Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System. Hypatia 22 (1).
   : The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Eurocentered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that Quijano terms "the coloniality of power" and "modernity." The coloniality of power introduces the basic and universal social classification of the population of the planet in terms of the idea of race, a replacing of relations of superiority and inferiority established through (...) domination with naturalized understandings of inferiority and superiority. In this essay, Lugones introduces a systemic understanding of gender constituted by colonial/modernity in terms of multiple relations of power. This gender system has a light and a dark side that depict relations, and beings in relation as deeply different and thus as calling for very different patterns of violent abuse. Lugones argues that gender itself is a colonial introduction, a violent introduction consistently and contemporarily used to destroy peoples, cosmologies, and communities as the building ground of the "civilized" West. (shrink)

   Philosophy of Gender in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

   Philosophy of Sexual Orientation in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

   Reading list   |  Discuss  |  Edit  |  Categorize  |  

    

   My bibliography  |

    

   Export citation | Scholar | At my library | Share & More ...
2. Maria Lugones (2006). On Complex Communication. Hypatia 21 (3).
   : This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognition of the other's opacity that does not attempt to assimilate it (...) into one's own familiar meanings. Refusing the assumption of transparency and operating with relational identities, the complex communication that occurs in the limen—often invisible to dominant groups—can enable genuine coalition and effective resistance to domination. (shrink)

   Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

   Reading list   |  Discuss  |  Edit  |  Categorize  |  

    

   My bibliography  |

    

   Export citation | Scholar | At my library | Share & More ...
3. María Lugones (2000). Multiculturalism and Publicity. Hypatia 15 (3).
   : This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that María Pía Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process of achievement of self-realization and autonomy is critiqued as inconsistent with the hidden transcript/public transcript distinction. The "we" to be fashioned intersubjectively in the dialogical process of subjective expansion cannot countenance that crucial distinction to the understanding of those narratives.

   Multiculturalism in Social and Political Philosophy

   Reading list   |  Discuss  |  Edit  |  Categorize  |  

    

   My bibliography  |

    

   Export citation | Scholar | At my library | Share & More ...
4. Maria C. Lugones (1990). Structure/Antistructure and Agency Under Oppression. Journal of Philosophy 87 (10):500-507.
   No categories

   Reading list   |  Discuss  |  Edit  |  Categorize  |  

    

   My bibliography  |

    

   Export citation  | Other links: jstor.org   | Scholar | At my library | Share & More ...