Cartographies of corporeal violence

patriarchy, speciesism and intersectional oppression

Abstract

This article seeks to open reflections on the forms of derision and control exercised over female bodies. Drawing on an intersectional and decolonial perspective, it maps the structural forms of violence that shape these corporealities through the articulation of gender, race and class. Within this framework, the body is understood as a territory of dispute, memory and resistance. Simultaneously, the article brings to light the persistence of such forms of violence in the exploitation of non-human animal bodies, highlighting a paradigm of domination sustained by supremacist, androcentric and anthropocentric logics. The analysis proposes a critical reading of these systems of oppression, incorporating ecofeminist critique as a possible means of disrupting hierarchical, classificatory and annihilatory processes between species. In doing so, it foregrounds the forms of resistance emerging from Latin American feminist movements, which reclaim both human and non-human bodies as sites of re-existence, care and transformation