Voices of third world women

feminism and committed literature

Abstract

This article reflects on the importance of committed literature from feminism. Taking as a starting point the theoretical foundations of Simone de Beauvoir, as a precursor to the study of the condition of women. Addressing the concept of otherness and alterity, the article dialogues with different relevant postulates in relation to the theme, paying special attention to the identification strategy of self-defined “women of color”, women victims of the “coloniality of gender”, third-communist women, mestizas black, chicana, indigenous, etc. who identify themselves as non-white forming feminist coalitions aware of the importance of the union between women, considering as a basis, the desire for decolonization and the condition of women victims of the “coloniality of gender”, which to a greater or lesser extent, effects to all those who are in that border of enunciation.