Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions

By María Lugones

Book Overview

Mar a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds."

Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the privileges of that culture. A lesbian, she experiences homophobia in both Anglo and Latino world. A woman, she moves uneasily in the world of patriarchy.

Lugones writes out of multiple and conflicting subjectivities that shape her sense of who she is, resisting the demand for a unified self in light of her necessary ambiguities. Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes explores the possibility of deep coalition with other women of color, based on "multiple understandings of oppressions and resistances"-understandings whose logic she subjects to philosophical investigation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742514595
• ISBN13: 9780742514591
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

excellent

For those who get emmersed in theory and cultural studies, yet want it to be more grounded in real-life experience, this is a great book for you. It doesn't read as "thickly," or dryly, as other philisophical works. Even though the wording is more simple and easy to digest, the ideas are very profound and it dirrectly challenges the reader to shift their view of reality. It offers a new way to construct reality, it is not simply a critique of common realities present now. This book really sucked me in. If you're a woman of color, or even a caucasian woman, you have much higher chances of being enamored with Lugones' way of seeing her world.