Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands

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2. From Third World Feminism to Decolonial Gender Epistemologies

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   2. Between Third World/Women of Color Feminism and Decolonial Feminism

      • Madina Tlostanova

      Pages 3-18

   3. Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn

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      Pages 19-60

3. Coloniality of Gender in the World of the Secondary Colonial Difference (Caucasus and Central Asia)

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   2. Race/Body/Gender and Coloniality in the Russian/Soviet Empire and Its Colonies

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   3. Quasi-scientific Racism and Gender in Russian and Soviet Discourses

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      Pages 93-129

   4. Dirt Fetish and Commodity Racism Soviet Way

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      Pages 131-140

   5. Colonial Gender Tricksterism in Central Asia and Caucasus

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      Pages 141-154

4. Trans-Epistemic Dialogues and Contemporary Gender Discourses in Caucasus and Central Asia

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   2. Eurasian Borderlands in Dialogue with Mesoamerica

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      Pages 157-172

   3. Two Dialogues

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      Pages 173-186

   4. Conclusion

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      Pages 187-205

5. Back Matter

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Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses of Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism, hence Eurasian borderland feminism must chart a third path.

• Central Asia
• dialogue
• feminism
• gender
• race
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• women
• area studies

MADINA TLOSTANOVAProfessor of History of Philosophy at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

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