Presented by Inocência Mata and Catarina Martins. With the presence of Carlota Simões (Director of the Coimbra University Press)

Synopsis
This book (CES Collection, Coimbra University Press, 2024) is an introductory reader to Post-colonial and Decolonial Feminisms, and other issues associated with feminisms of racialized women and feminisms of the global South. It is based on the experience acquired over the years in the curricular seminar “Women, Race and Ethnicities”, which is part of the Doctoral Programme in Feminist Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and the Centre for Social Studies. The volume is structured upon fundamental bibliographical references, which are interpreted and explained, thus opening insights into contemporary issues of Black Feminisms in the United States of America, Europe and Brazil, as well as African, Asian, Latin-American and Islamic Feminisms.

This book is available in open access.

Bio notes

Catarina Martins is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and Researcher of the Centre for Social Studies. She was a lecturer at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, for several years. She holds a PhD in German Literature from the University of Coimbra (2008). She has published on topics such as feminist and post-colonial studies, comparative literature, German-language literature and African literature, particularly by women. Among her current areas of research, post-colonial studies and feminist studies stand out, associated with themes and issues from literature and cultures. Martins is a lecturer of the doctoral programmes in Feminist Studies, Discourses: History, Culture and Society, and in Literature and Culture Studies, and Director of the CES Collection.

Inocência Mata holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities from the University of Lisbon and a post-doctorate in Post-colonial Studies (Post-colonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity and Globalisation, University of California Berkeley). She is a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in Literature, Arts and Culture (LAC). She is currently the director of the Postgraduate Programme in Portuguese as a Foreign and Second Language. With publications in the field of African Literatures and Literatures in Portuguese, Post-colonial Studies, Mata is a senior researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon (CEComp), a member of APELA (Association pour l'étude des littératures africaines, based in France), Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (APLC), Associação Internacional de Literatura Comparada, AFROLIC (Associação Internacional de Estudos Literários e Culturais Africanos, Brazil), AILP_CSH (Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Língua Portuguesa). Mata has won awards in the fields of Education and Literary Essays, is a founding member of UNEAS (National Union of Authors and Artists of São Tomé and Príncipe) and an Honorary Member of the Union of Angolan Authors, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences - Class of Arts and Humanities, the Angolan Academy of Arts and Humanities and the Galician Portuguese Language Association. She is a coordinator, consultant and team member of national and international research projects.