Maria Lugones

Title

Maria Lugones

Rights

“María Lugones Ilustration” by Aespinozao is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Birth Date

1944

Birthplace

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death Date

2020

Primary Sources

Lugones, M., Espinosa-Miñoso, Y., & Maldonado-Torres, N. (Eds.). (2022). Decolonial feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American contributions and challenges. Rowman & Littlefield.

Lugones, M. (2020). Gender and universality in colonial methodology. Critical philosophy of Race, 8(1-2), 25-47.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/747657

Lugones, M. (2020). Revisiting gender: A decolonial approach. In A.J. Pitts, M. Ortega, & J. Medina, Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance. Oxford University Press.
https://philpapers.org/rec/LUGRGA

Lugones, M. (2016). The Coloniality of Gender. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3_2

Lugones, M. (2012). Methodological Notes Toward a Decolonial Feminism. In A.M Isasi-Díaz & E. Mendieta (Eds.), Decolonizing Epistemologies: Latina/o Theology and Philosophy. Fordham University Press. 
https://academic.oup.com/fordham-scholarship-online/book/16844   

Lugones, M. (2010). Toward a decolonial feminism. Hypatia, 25(4), 742-759. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40928654 

Lugones, M. (2008). Colonialidad y género. Tabula Rasa, (9), 73–102. 

Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), 186-219. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4640051

Lugones, M., & Price, J. (2003). The inseparability of race, class, and gender. Latino Studies Journal, 1(2), 329–332. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600039

Lugones, M. (2003). Peregrinajes/pilgrimages: Theorizing coalition against multiple oppressions. Rowman & Littlefield Press.

Lugones, M. (1998). Motion, stasis, and resistance to interlocked oppressions. In S. H. Aiken, A. Brigham, S. A. Marston & P. Waterstone (Eds.), Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. University of Arizona Press.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv27bds8b


Secondary Sources

Alcoff, L. M. (2020). Lugones's World-Making. Critical Philosophy of Race8(1-2), 199-211. https://doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0199

Bohrer, A. J. (2020). Toward a Decolonial Feminist Anticapitalism: María Lugones, Sylvia Wynter, and Sayak Valencia. Hypatia, 35(3), 524-541. 
https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.20

DiPietro, P. J. (2019). Speaking face to face: The visionary philosophy of María Lugones. SUNY Press. https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Speaking-Face-to-Face2

Maese-Cohen, M. (2010). Introduction: Toward Planetary Decolonial Feminisms. Qui Parle18(2), 3–27. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.3

Extra Resources

María Lugones. (2016, January 15). Decolonial Feminism. Vimeo, part 1. Accessed June 5, 2022. 
https://vimeo.com/151868195,

María Lugones. (2017, July 14). Decolonial Feminism, Vimeo, part 2. Accessed June 5, 2022. 
https://vimeo.com/225597052,

Citation

“Maria Lugones,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/788.

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