Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception

A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is seen not as fusion and erasure of difference but as incompatible with them. Love reveals plurality. Unity-...

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Published in:Hypatia 1987-07, Vol.2 (2), p.3-19
Main Author: Lugones, María
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Feminism
Hispanics
Mothers
Otherworlds
Perception
Racism
Slaves
Travel
Violence against women
Visual perception
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Summary:A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is seen not as fusion and erasure of difference but as incompatible with them. Love reveals plurality. Unity-not to be confused with solidarity-is understood as conceptually tied to domination.
ISSN:0887-5367
1527-2001
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01062.x