Communitarian feminism:

Contributions to Feminism´s descolonization

Abstract

This work analyzes the possibilites of political action and buildin epistemologies through Communitarian Feminism and its proposals for decolonization, depatriarchalizing and communitarian resistance. Initially, it presente Decolonial Feminis which, by seeing the complexity of interation between the diffrente categories of oprression produced by colonialism (race, sex, gender or sexuality), breaks with the complicity between Hegemonic Feminism an coloniality. Then, seeks the origin of Communitarian Feminism and evaluates its contributions to critical review of the dominant feminis paradigm´s analysis categories. Initially, community feminists analyze the encounter between ancestral or original patriarchy with the patriarchal model introduced by the colonizer and, to what extent, this patriarchal junction is responsible for the double subalternization of indigenous women. Based on this observation, they propose the depatriarchalization and decolonization of their populations and their territories. Next, identity is thought of from a community perspective with the aim of recovering the category of indigenous women, based on interculturality and the decolonization of identity, enabling the construction of fluid and plural identities. Finally, the body-territory presents itself not only as an analytical category, but also as a place of community resistance. It is necessary to recover the body, to defend it from this colonial process that structures it as subordinate, exploited and violated. Finally, Communitarian Feminist´s proposol not only enhance the struggles against colonialism and patriarchy, as well as reorganizing the community by incorporating men into the dialogue and struggles in defense of body and territory.