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Light and Dark: Intersections of Gender and Race in Butler and Lugones

Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleLight and Dark: Intersections of Gender and Race in Butler and Lugones
ContributorKatrine Smiet(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH11
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractFinally, Katrine Smiet, in her article, “Light and Dark: Intersections of Race and Gender in Butler and Lugones,” calls attention to the fact that an intersectional perspective on gender is widely supported, but often in an additive sense – looking at gender <i>and</i> race, or recognizing the different experiences of white and racialized women, for instance. While these approaches are important, actually recognizing the mutual constitution and co-construction of gender and race seems to demand a different approach altogether. Where does this leave – or take – the theoretical apparatus developed in feminist philosophy? While race and coloniality do not feature prominently in Judith Butler’s early theorizations of gender, her framework in many ways is compatible with the work of postcolonial author Maria Lugones. Butler’s thinking, on the other hand, goes a step further than Lugones’ in the questioning of biological essentialism.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Katrine Smiet

(author)
Radboud University Nijmegen
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9332-3639

Katrine Smiet is Assistant Professor at the faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the history/historiography of feminist debates, intersectionality scholarship, and feminist pedagogies. She is the author of Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Travelling Truths in Feminist Scholarship (Routledge 2021) and has published in The European Journal of Women’s Studies and Postcolonial Studies.