Women go no'Gree is the winner of Images Vevey Book Award 2019/2020. The book wrestles with the challenges of applying universal Western feminist ideas to cultures with entirely different traditions. In a brilliant, colourful and rhythmic page layout, Gloria takes us out on a project dedicated to the postcolonial rethinking of gender and race. Empires, by their very nature, embody and formalize difference, both between metropolis / colony and colonial subjects. Imperial imaginary floods popular culture. Gender categories were one kind of bio-logic new tradition European colonialism institutionalised in most of African cultures. But there is significant religious and linguistic evidence that before colonisation social practices (division of labour, profession, monarchical structures) where not gendered. Infantilisation of women as part of Western patriarchal system was also exported with the colonisation of the mind, configuring a state of vulnerability, making the path of dependency propitious. Can we assume social relations in all societies are organised around biological sexual difference? Beauty canon, modernity, stereotypes... Decolonise feminism questioning the Eurocentric rational theoretical frameworks that construct gender categories in a universalistic manner.
