Feminisms in difference: between liberalism and decolonization

Abstract

The aim of the following work, based on an educational approach to contemporary cultural history, is to account for different mink issues of gender between the Global South and the Global North, briefly retracing the unequivocal contrast between the white academic vision of emancipation-liberation and the struggle strategies of Afro-descendant or ethnic American women. There are many misunderstandings, but specifically, we can see the difficulty cultured white women have in opening themselves up to a truly equal dialogue, not conditioned by prejudices relating to the backwardness or closed-mindedness of their interlocutors, alien to the dogma of progress in the vast South. The appearance on the cultural and political scene of postcolonial studies first and then decolonial studies has ended up raising significant questions about the permanence of persistent, even if often unaware, attitudes of neo-colonialism in Western culture, which seems little inclined to question its centrality in global development, thanks to science and technology, without taking into consideration other knowledge and its relevance in community life. Perhaps on the part of the feminine of the West, the more authentic meaning of freedom should be reviewed.