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Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2003. 249 pp.. $75.00 hardcover. $27.95 paper.
In this profound, provocative, and richly rewarding collection of previously published and new essays, feminist philosopher and popular educator Maria Lugones shares themes emerging from decades of hard-won learning within collaborative emancipatory practice. A volume in the series Feminist Constructions, dedicated to accessible new work in feminist ethics, Pilgrimages/Peregrinaj es uses "theoretico-practical" reflection within experiential social learning to dissolve false dichotomies between theory and practice, offering a remarkably compelling textual version of the transformative classroom. Recognizing text's possibilities and limitations in facilitating social learning from shifting locations, Lugones weaves together innovative textual strategies to demonstrate how political coalitions challenge cherished notions of individualism, privacy and difference, illuminate human complexity and permeability, and construct connections defying barriers to collective movements. Her feminist philosophical analysis emerges from deliberative use of poetics, vivid personal testimonials, and witnessings in varied practice settings, and from collaboration with textile artist Mildred Beltre, illustrating and inspiring the rigorous, destabilizing self-questioning that makes trustworthy coalitions possible. Lugones meticulously exposes the logic of social stories and epistemic positions emerging from shifting locations of power, provoking readers into multiple engagements with lived...