Quijano's Theory Summary

In her work, Lugones intends to utilize part of Quijano’s concepts to explain the role of heterosexism and Eurocentrism play in how gender and race are viewed in society. She does this by analyzing several topics. Lugones explores the colonialty of power, intersexuality, non-gendered and gynecratic egalitarianism and the modern gender system in order to prove that heterosexism and eurocentrism to clarify their function in interrelating race and gender.
In order to formulate her point, Lugones critics Quijano’s theory and critic of Eurocentered capitalism. She acknowledges that there are some truths in Quijano’s words such as the when he states the struggle over control of recourses, sex, and reproduction that define dominance can be explained through the coloniality and modernity (Lugones 2007, 189). Yet, this fall short in several ways. One of the ways Lugones believes Quijano’s theory fails is the fact that it assumes a patriarchal and heterosexual understanding of sex (Lugones 2007, 190). It bases all of its analyzes of sex, and reproduction is formed on assumptions that heterosexual orientations are the norm and only employ the point of view of a male. In addition, Quijano disregarded women and in a way subjugates them. Lugones points out that in this theory women are not thought …show more content…
This narrow view of gender and race only allowed women, and those of color, to be seen as animalistic and were excluded from many discussions. Lugones explains that race can be understood as gendered and gender as raced because it is utilized as means to differentiate Europeans and the colonized, therefore, race and gender are powerful fictions (2007, 2202). A way comprehend this term of powerful fictions is to view race and gender as socially made concepts that reinforce the Eurocentric views that now