Reading List: ‘Dismantling the Colonial Gender System for Collective Liberation’

Global South Feminist Manifesto Week: Transnational Dialogues 

Find a suggested list of resources and introductory readings for the thematic session on Dismantling the Colonial Gender System for Collective Liberation of the Global South Feminist Manifesto Week: Transnational Dialogues to be held on 21st August at 7 am UTC and 1 pm UTC. 

All resources are authored by global south feminists and are organised by language – Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish-.  If you would like to access a more extensive list of resources on the topic or other feminist productions you can visit the South Feminist Knowledge Hub here. We invite you to send us any other resources that should be included in this reading list by filling out this form or emailing us at knowledgehub@southfeministfutures.org. 

English

• A Decolonial Feminism, by Françoise Vergès
• Invention of Women, by Oyèronké Oyěwùmí,
• Heterosexualism and the colonial modern gender system, by María Lugones,
• Towards a decolonial feminism, by Maria Lugones
• Feminism without borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practising Solidarity, by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• No African Futures without the Liberation of Women: A Decolonial Feminist Perspective, by Akhona Nkenkana
• Feminist Economics is Everything. The Revolution is Now!, by Lebohang Liepollo Pheko
• Exploring the Body as Colonial Occupation, by Jota Mombaça
• Decolonial Feminism, by Shubha Chacko
• Anti-Colonial Feminist Imaginaries, by Kohl Journal

Arabic

• [مقال]كندا و مصر: ألينا ساجد، سارة سالم. “المخيال النسوي المعادي للاستعمار: نضالات الماضي ومآلات المستقبل”. كحل: مجلّة لأبحاث الجسد والجندر مجلّد 9 عدد 1 (18 يناير 2023): ص. 1-8. (تمّ الاطلاع عليه أخيرا في تاريخ 13 مارس 2024). متوفّر على
• تحت عيون الغرب – الدراسات النسوية والخطابات الاستعمارية، شاندرا موهانتي،
  

Spanish

• Colonialidad y Género, by Maria Lugones 
• Descolonizando el feminismo: Una perspectiva desde América Latina y el Caribe, by Ochy Curiel
• La necesidad de entender el poder para actuar. Violencia, género y colonialidad, by Rita Segato
• Hacia un feminismo decolonial, by Maria Lugones
• Cuestionando la teoría: género, poder e identidad en el contexto africano, by Amina Mama:
• La invención de las mujeres, by Oyèronké Oyěwùmí
• Poética de los Feminismos Decoloniales, by Karina Bidaseca
• Cuerpos, Territorios y Feminismos

Portuguese

• Não vão nos matar agora, by Jota Mombaça
• Descolonizando afetos: Experimentações sobre outras formas de amar, by Geni Nuñez,
• EXORBITÂNCIAS:Os caminhos da deserção de gênero, by Abigail Campos Leal