Maria Lugones

María Lugones is an Argentine scholar, philosopher, feminist, and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture and of Philosophy and of Women's Studies at Binghamton University in New York.

Early life

Biography

Lugones was born in the pampas of Argentina. Her father was the son of a sharecropper and her mother was the daughter of Catalonian immigrants. Her father’s parents had been sharecroppers in a province of Buenos Aires, Los Toldos. Both sets of families had been extremely poor and often struggled to make ends meet.

Academic career

Education

She received her Bachelors of Arts in the field of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles with magna cum laude. In 1973 she received her Master of Arts in the department of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Shortly after that, in 1978, she received her Doctorate of Philosophy from the department of Philosophy with a minor from the department of political science after finishing her dissertation on Morality and Public Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Colonial/modern gender system

A term created by Lugones is the Colonial/Modern Gender System. It is a gender binary or heterosexual system in which there are different hierarchies of power. It is within this system that homosexuality or transgender identities are not recognized. For more information regarding this concept also see: Colonial/Modern Gender System

Published works

Some of the published work that Maria Lugones has written includes:

• Heterosexualism in the Colonial/modern Gender system - Hypatia vol 22 no 1 (winter 2007)
• Problems of translation in Postcolonial Thinking - Anthropology News. April 2003. With Joshua Price.
• The Inseparability of race, class, and gender - Latino Studies Journal. Vol. I #1, Fall 2003. With Joshua Price.
• Strategies of the Chicana Lesbian - edited by Ma. Louise Keating (forthcoming).
• Peregrinajes/Pilgrimages: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions - New York: Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2003.
• Impure Communities - in Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Philip Anderson. 2002. Oxford: Blackwell.
• On Maria Pia Lara's Moral Structures - Hypatia, Fall 2000.
• Wicked Caló: A Matter of the Authority of Improper Words - In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly. Edited by Marilyn Frye and Sarah Lucia Hoagland. Penn State University Press, 2000.
• Tenuous Connections in Impure Communities - Journal of Environmental Ethics, 1999.
• The Discontinuous Passing of the Cachapera/Tortillera from the barrio to the bar to the Movement - In Daring To Be Good: Feminist Essays in Ethico-Politics. Edited by Ami Bar-On and Aim Ferguson. New York: Routledge, 1998.
• Motion, Stasis, and Resistance to Interlocked Oppressions - In Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Edited by Susan Hardy Aiken, et al. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 1998.
• Enticements and Dangers of Community for a Radical Politics - In Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy. Edited by Iris Young and Alison Jaggar. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
• Hard to Handle Anger - In Overcoming Racism and Sexism. Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

References

• "About APS." The American Philosophical Society'. The American Philosophical Society, 2010. Web. 4 June. 2012.
• "The Society for Women in Philosophy". The Society for Women in Philosophy. Chris Cuomo, 2007. Web. 4 June. 2012.
• “Lugones, Maria.” Binghamton University. Binghamton University, State University of New York. Web. 4. 2012.
• Lugones, Maria. “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System.” Hypatia 22.1 (2007): 186-209. Print.
• Lugones, Maria. “Playfulness, “‘Word-Traveling’, and Loving Perception.”Hypatia 2.2 (1987): 3-19. Print.
• Lugones, Maria . Personal Interview. 5 June 2012.