Entre subalternidade e epistemologia: a emergência de um feminismo decolonial brasileiro

Abstract

This study proposes a reflection on the mechanisms of power that shape feminist epistemology and investigates paths toward a decolonial theory that not only recognizes but amplifies the voices of subalternized and colonized women. By delving into Latin American counter-hegemonic feminist currents, we outline a trajectory that destabilizes imposed Western paradigms and claims situated knowledges. As we venture into Brazilian feminist theories, we find in Lélia Gonzalez's concept of 'amefricanidade' a fertile perspective for understanding the roots and crossroads of identities that emerge from diaspora, erasure, and resistance. Our theoretical framework was constructed from a broad survey of information, concepts, and critical perspectives originating from the Global South. The methodology adopted consisted of organizing the dissertation into chapters and subheadings, which allowed for a systematic and detailed presentation of the subject under analysis. In the first chapter, we developed a critical analysis of the relationships between colonialism, gender, and knowledge production. In the second chapter, we critically analyzed the constitution of modern thought and its epistemological, political, and social unfoldings, with special attention to the contributions of decolonial and feminist perspectives in the Global South. Finally, in the third and last chapter, we deepened the analysis of Lélia Gonzalez's thought, consolidating it as a central theoretical axis for the construction of a decolonial feminist epistemology situated in the Brazilian and Latin American context. Although the chosen debate is already well established in academic circles, we seek to go beyond traditional formulations, entering more incisively into the epistemologies of subalternized subjects, especially Brazilian women.The results obtained proved to be of great relevance for understanding the current situation of Brazilian feminist philosophy, which has been continuously deepened by the national intellectual community and disseminated in multiple spaces of political and cultural mobilization, especially among Black, peripheral, quilombola, and Indigenous women. We conclude that the struggle for rights and emancipation cannot be conceived in an individualized and fragmented manner, but must be carried out through collective practices of resistance, in which women themselves assert themselves as protagonists of their history and of their knowledge production.