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Decolonial Feminism as Latin American Subaltern Feminism

Abstract

In this article I propose the understanding of decolonial feminism as Latin-American and subaltern feminism. In the last two decades, decolonial feminism has developed a critical discourse on modernity and coloniality outside and inside of Latin-American feminism. As well as Third-World feminism, decolonial feminism presents the paradox of feminist representation. There is a necessary articulation between the theory and practice in decolonial feminist project and its main novelty is to reconstruct the decolonization as a political utopia, along w others Latin-American and subaltern feminisms.

Keywords:
Subaltern Feminisms; Latin-American Feminisms; Decolonial Feminism; Decolonial Turn

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