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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Gender & Women's Studies

“The Colonial Contract and the Coloniality of Gender: Decolonial Feminist Reflections on Charles Mills’s Racia-Sexual Contract”

Emma Velez, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies

Drawing on frameworks of intersectionality and decolonial feminism, this article examines the interweavings between two prominent domination contracts, the racia-sexual contract and the colonial contract, to better account for the systematic exclusion of Black, Indigenous, and other women of color from liberal social contracts that are foundationally predicated on forms of gendered, racialized, colonial domination.

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