GLORIA OYARZABAL _ WOMAN GO NO'GREE

Gloria Oyarzabal
Woman Go No´Gree

Published by RM, 2020
Book size 19 × 27.5 cm
Pages 176 pages
Hardcover
Language English
ISBN 978-84-17975-28-9
New condition

Empires, by their very nature, embody and formalize difference, both between metropolis / colony and colonial subjects. Imperial imagination floods popular culture. Gender categories were one kind of bio-logic “new tradition” European colonialism institutionalized in most of African cultures. But there is significant religious and linguistic evidence that before colonization social practices (division of labor, profession, monarchical structures) where not gendered. Infantilization of women as part of Western patriarchal system was also exported with the colonization of the mind, configuring a state of vulnerability, making the path of dependency propitious. Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual difference? Beauty canon, modernity, stereotypes… Decolonize feminism questioning the Eurocentric rational theoretical frameworks that construct gender categories in a universalistic manner.

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Empires, by their very nature, embody and formalize difference, both between metropoles/colonies and colonial subjects. The imperial imaginary floods popular culture. Gender categories were a kind of biologically colonial European “new tradition” institutionalized in most African cultures. But there is significant religious and linguistic evidence that prior to colonization, social practices (division of labor, profession, monarchical structures) were not gendered. The infantilization of women within the Western patriarchal system was also exported with the colonization of the mind, configuring a state of vulnerability, making the path to dependency conducive. Can we assume that social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual difference? Canon of beauty, modernity, stereotypes… Decolonizing feminism by questioning the Eurocentric rational theoretical frameworks that construct gender categories in a universalist manner.