This book redefines feminist discourse by exploring the intersections of decolonial feminisms across various geopolitical contexts, emphasising the integration of local and indigenous narratives that challenge colonial epistemologies.
This book redefines feminist discourse by exploring the intersections of decolonial feminisms across various geopolitical contexts, emphasising the integration of local and indigenous narratives that challenge colonial epistemologies.
The volume is organized into three thematic sections that critique traditional feminist frameworks, highlight innovative pedagogical methodologies, and showcase activism aimed at addressing intersectional inequalities. Each section features contributions from established scholars and emerging voices from both the Global North and South, fostering interdisciplinary discussions that reflect a rich diversity of experiences. This approach not only enhances understanding of feminist thought but also promotes transformative practices that advocate for gender and social justice.
The book is targeted at scholars, students, and activists in feminist studies, postcolonial theory, and social justice, this book is essential for those looking to expand their understanding of feminist thought. Its emphasis on collaboration and solidarity makes it a valuable resource for anyone interested in addressing the complex global issues influenced by colonial histories while envisioning a more equitable future.
Part I: Decolonising Feminisms
1. Feminisms, Decolonial Dialogues and Transnational Perspectives
2. Delinking Blackness: Black Feminist and Decolonial Theories in Dialogue
3. Decolonising the University: Towards a Feminist Ethics of Care Approach
4. Between Languages in Francophone Literature: Decoloniality and Feminism in
Assia Djebars and Hélčne Cixouss Writings
5. Decolonising studies on men, boys and masculinities, North and South:
A dialogue between Kopano Ratele and Jeff Hearn
6. Against Colonisation through the Right Narrative of Gender: Decolonial
Perspectives on Anti-Genderism and the Radical Feminist Response in
Contemporary Hungary
7. On the project of respatialising the South African present: Black women,
apartheid memory and a different sense of place
Part II: Decolonial Feminist Pedagogical and Research Engagements
8. Decolonial Feminism in Psychology: The Hub for Decolonial Feminist
Psychologies in Africa Emerging Praxis from the South
9. Decolonial feminisms as a practice of co-teaching: Toward shared and
dialogical emancipatory utopias
10. Researching and Refusing Reproduction: Feminist Decolonial Possibilities
11. Re-imagining gender and sexual justice: a decolonial feminist praxis
12. Acknowledgement through Art: Experiments in a decolonial feminist
practice
13. Why do white women get raped in Raj Nostalgia literature? Violence,
Gender, and the Decolonisation of Trauma
Deevia Bhana holds the South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her interests lie in the area of gender and childhood sexualities, young masculinities and sexual health education. Her latest authored book is Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play, and Sexuality (2023) and edited book is Gender and Young Peoples Digital Sexual Cultures (2025).
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. Her scholarship has been directed at intersectional gender and sexual justice, particularly with young people, and re-conceptualising academic knowledge with emphasis on post-qualitative, feminist, decolonial pedagogies and research. Most recent authored book is A feminist critique of sexuality education for gender justice in South African contexts (with S. Ngabaza, 2023); and edited book is: Routledge Handbook of Global Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities (with Torres, Pinto & Hearn, 2025).
Giti Chandra is currently Research Specialist with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (under the auspices of UNESCO) in Reykjavik. She is the author of Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To witness these wrongs unspeakable (2009) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on The Politics of the #MeToo Movement (2021).
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