Doing Nonideal Theory About Gender in Global Contexts

Abstract

This paper elaborates and renders explicit some of the views about political philosophical methodology that underlie the author's arguments in Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic. It shows how the author's stances on autonomy, individualism, intersectionality, human rights, the coloniality of gender, and the oppression of genders besides man and woman grow out of a commitment to scrutinizing our normative views in light of transnational criticism and empirical information from the qualitative social sciences.

Gender and Coloniality: From Low-Intensity Communal Patriarchy to High-Intensity Colonial-Modern Patriarchy

“…7 What Segato denounces here is the hegemony of human rights as the only moral language, not their content or pragmatic importance. For a recent discussion on decolonial feminism and the peril in expecting or enforcing a single moral language, see Khader 2018;Khader 2021;McLaren 2021;Meyers 2021;Monque 2021. 8 The Spanish word I have translated as "peoples" is pueblos, not gentes.…”