Maria Cristina Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher, activist, and Professor of Comparative Literature and of women's studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and at Binghamton University in New York State.
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Maria Lugones was known for her theory of multiple selves, her work on decolonial feminism, and for developing the concept of the "coloniality of gender," which posits that gender is a colonial imposition.
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Maria Lugones earned her BA from the University of California in 1969.
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Maria Lugones received a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in philosophy in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin.
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Maria Lugones taught Philosophy at Carleton College from 1972 to 1993, beginning as an instructor and leaving as a full professor.
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Maria Lugones joined Binghamton University in 1993, where she was Professor of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies.
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Maria Lugones held visiting appointments at ACM Chicago, Instituto Tilcara de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, and elsewhere.
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Maria Lugones's scholarship ranged across disciplines, extending from social and political philosophy to decolonial feminism, Andean philosophy, Latino politics and theories of resistance.
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Maria Lugones's work has been influenced by Gloria Anzaldua, Combahee River Collective, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Kimberle Crenshaw, Frantz Fanon, and Anibal Quijano.
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Outside of the academy, Maria Lugones worked as a popular educator.
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Maria Lugones explained the arrogant gaze is a technique many individuals have used to break their spirit to conquer their worlds; however, Maria Lugones argues that loving perception is the response to the arrogant gaze that has us travel to other worlds.
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Maria Lugones explained we need the attribute of playfulness to relate with others since it allows us to exist with an openness to accepting and creating new ideas without any rules or barriers to hinder us.
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Maria Lugones was diagnosed with her third occurrence of lung cancer in late 2019 and hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms after undergoing radiation treatment in 2020.
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On 14 July 2020, at 76 years of age, Maria Lugones died at a hospital in Syracuse, New York.