Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands

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

• Introduction PART I: FROM THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM TO DECOLONIAL GENDER EPISTEMOLOGIES Between Third-World/Women of Color Feminism and Decolonial Feminism Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn PART II: COLONIALITY OF GENDER IN THE WORLD OF THE SECONDARY COLONIAL DIFFERENCE (CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA) Race/Body/Gender and Coloniality in the Russian/Soviet Empire and its Colonies Quasi-Scientific Racism and Gender in Russian and Soviet discourses Dirt Fetish and Commodity Racism Soviet Way Colonial Gender Tricksterism in Central Asia and Caucasus PART III: TRANS-EPISTEMIC DIALOGUES AND CONTEMPORARY GENDER DISCOURSES IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA Eurasian Borderlands in Dialogue with Mesoamerica Two Dialogues Conclusion: Why Cut the Feet in Order to Fit the Western Shoes?