Liberation from Colonial (Thinking) Relations: Feminist Theory Beyond Europe

Review of Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf und Magdalena Kraus (2019): Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika

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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2021.164

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Feminism, Justice, Equality Politics, Globalisation, Intersectionality, Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Social Movements, Science

Abstract

Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf and Magdalena Kraus present a readable and clearly structured introduction to "non-Western" feminist theories of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century and encourage further research. The book presents selected theorists and their concepts as well as central debates, which are divided partly by region - the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Spanish-speaking Latin America - and partly by topic - postcolonial theory and criticism, feminism in Islam and ecofeminism. In the process, Eurocentrism in thought and terminology is reflected upon and it is reminded that feminist theory is in interplay with lived social and political practice.

Author Biography

Heike Kahlert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Heike Kahlert is Professor of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and an affiliated member of the Center for Feminist Social Studies (CFS) at Örebro University in Sweden. Her research focuses on transformations of knowledge in modernity, gender relations and social change in the welfare state, institutionalized inequalities in education, and equality-related organizational development in the public-profit sector.

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Winkel, Heidemarie (2019): Postkolonialismus: Geschlecht als koloniale Wissenskategorie und die weiße Geschlechterforschung. In: Kortendiek, Beate/Riegraf, Birgit/Sabisch, Katja (Hg.): Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 293–302. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-12500-4_36-1.

Buchcover "Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika"; roter Hintergrund und bunte Zeichnung mit verschiedenen Körpern

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2021-02-16

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Kahlert, H. (2021). Liberation from Colonial (Thinking) Relations: Feminist Theory Beyond Europe: Review of Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf und Magdalena Kraus (2019): Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Open Gender Journal, 5. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2021.164

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Vol. 5 (2021): Open Gender Journal

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