Africa and their women. Reflections about african poscolonial feminism
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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La colonización europea del continente africano afectó, entre otros aspectos, a la condición de género en general y a la de las mujeres en particular. Ante la necesidad poscolonial de superar los esquemas vividos bajo ese régimen, se debió proponer una diferenciación metodológica que abarcara la diversidad de situaciones de etnicidad, cultura, cosmovisión, historicidad y agencia, además de las de clase y género, que allí se habían producido. Así, fueron esbozadas líneas de pensamiento y de acción que permitieron entender el modo en que las africanas fueron objeto de una triple opresión: de género, de etnicidad y de subalternidad socio-económico-cultural. Desde esa posición, el feminismo negro postuló deconstruir al sujeto masculinista del discurso eurocéntrico y empoderar a las mujeres para su revalorización local.
European colonization of the African continent affected, among other things, the status of gender in general and to women in particular. In the postcolonial time, they need to overcome the schemes lived under that regime, and to propose a methodological differentiation over the diversity of situations: ethnicity, culture, worldview, historicity and agency, in addition to the usual, class and gender there had occurred. So they were sketched lines of thought and action that allowed understand how African were subjected to three oppressions: gender, ethnicity and socio-economic-cultural subordination. From this position, the black feminism tried to deconstruct the subject of Eurocentric masculinist discourse and empower women for local appreciation.
European colonization of the African continent affected, among other things, the status of gender in general and to women in particular. In the postcolonial time, they need to overcome the schemes lived under that regime, and to propose a methodological differentiation over the diversity of situations: ethnicity, culture, worldview, historicity and agency, in addition to the usual, class and gender there had occurred. So they were sketched lines of thought and action that allowed understand how African were subjected to three oppressions: gender, ethnicity and socio-economic-cultural subordination. From this position, the black feminism tried to deconstruct the subject of Eurocentric masculinist discourse and empower women for local appreciation.
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Mujeres, África, feminismo, poscolonialidad, género, Women, Africa, feminism, poscoloniality, gender