Decolonial Feminism

Abstract

How are women from the margins part of the feminist project? Historically, women from the margins have been passively alluded to, spoken for, and talked about in ways that obscure their identities, interests, and struggles. In this entry I discuss decolonial feminism as a counter-epistemic epistemology that aims for epistemic autonomy through voicing the feminisms of the Other and the otherwise, and as an emancipatory project that looks to fractures discursive registers used to frame women from the margins and other them within discourses of emancipation. This entry provides an overview of the genealogy and development of decolonial feminism and its application in gender and management scholarship.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Management
Editors	Jean Helms Mills, Albert J Mills, Kristin S Williams, Regine Bendl
Publisher	Edward Elgar
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

Decolonial feminism
feminisms from the margins
epistemic autonomy
epistemic resistance
coloniality of power
pluriversal feminist knowledges

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Work and Equalities Institute
Global inequalities

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