Gender as decolonial category of analysis

What is the role and the usage of gender? What is the meaning of the useof this term not only for feminist movements, but for the production of knowledge? Why use gender as a category of analysis to think the “human”? I try to think, about 30 years after Joan Scott’s canonical publication, what it m...

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Autor: Gomes, Camilla de Magalhães
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositório:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/28209
Acesso em linha:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/28209
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Gender. Feminism. Decoloniality. Race.
Gênero. Feminismo. Decolonialidade. Raça
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Resumo:What is the role and the usage of gender? What is the meaning of the useof this term not only for feminist movements, but for the production of knowledge? Why use gender as a category of analysis to think the “human”? I try to think, about 30 years after Joan Scott’s canonical publication, what it means to use gender as a category of analysis when perspectives such as decoloniality have shown us that gender can be a form of coloniality and can produce discourses that hide the multiplicity of the experience of relations outside the world-system of colonial modernity. I here argue that gender is a category of analysis capable of destabilizing what it is to be a man or to be a woman only when perceived not as a primary category, having race as secondary, but as a category with which it is produced.