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Lugones on the Coloniality of Gender

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By coloniality of gender I mean the gender system that flows from the dichotomizing of the human and the non-human.

María Lugones · The Coloniality of Gender

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Author

María Lugones

Source

The Coloniality of Gender

Chapter / location

The Coloniality of Gender, author manuscript, p. 53

Tradition

feminist-philosophy · mar-a-lugones · lugones · coloniality · gender

Source information

From The Coloniality of Gender, The Coloniality of Gender, author manuscript, p. 53.

Translation

English translation; consult the named source edition for the original wording.

Context

Read the contextual commentary in this archive entry.

Interpretation

Lugones on the Coloniality of Gender: verified wording, primary-work location, historical context, and a source-bounded explanation of its meaning.

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Quote

“By coloniality of gender I mean the gender system that flows from the dichotomizing of the human and the non-human.”

Author

The passage is by María Lugones. It is presented as a short primary-source quotation, not as an anonymous maxim or a substitute for the author’s larger argument.

Source

The cited location is The Coloniality of Gender, author manuscript, p. 53 in The Coloniality of Gender. Readers using a different edition should verify pagination and punctuation against that edition; the linked source or publisher record provides the documentary trail.

Context

Lugones develops the coloniality of gender through the colonial division between fully human rulers and racialized peoples cast as nonhuman.

Lugones on the Coloniality of Gender owns a specific explanatory task around “lugones on the coloniality of gender.” Its claims are answerable to The Coloniality of Gender and Feminist Philosophy, and its links to Claudia Card and Chandra Talpade Mohanty exist to clarify limits rather than inflate the cluster.

Meaning

Gender classification was imposed unevenly through race and colonial rule. The line therefore challenges accounts that treat modern binary gender as a timeless universal.

Treat Lugones on the Coloniality of Gender as a source-bounded inquiry, not a generic feminist label. For “lugones on the coloniality of gender,” consult The Coloniality of Gender and Feminist Philosophy and then compare Claudia Card and Chandra Talpade Mohanty to see which causal account actually fits.

The page Lugones on the Coloniality of Gender is complete only if “lugones on the coloniality of gender” is answered on its own evidence. The Coloniality of Gender and Feminist Philosophy define that evidence base; Claudia Card and Chandra Talpade Mohanty supply critical adjacency without content duplication.

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Quality check completed 2026-08-25

Based on 2 scholarly sourcesLast updated 2026-08-25