Paloma Stratz Carvalho

This research project revisits the issue of the association between women and nature, complicating the arguments that have justified this link and proposing a new perspective for the debate by conceiving a decolonial ethics of ambiguity. Essentialist feminism views the woman-nature connection as biological, while the constructivist current sees it as historically and materially constructed. Both perspectives examine the fact that only women—unlike men—have been linked to nature, in opposition to culture, generating psychosocial and political consequences. Simone de Beauvoir, in *The Ethics of Ambiguity*, defends the coexistence of opposites and ambiguities as part of the human condition, without implying moral failure. This project values Beauvoir’s contribution while also pointing to its Eurocentric limitations. It aims to broaden the debate on ambiguity by incorporating other premises through the border epistemology of Gloria Anzaldúa, in order to ask: is it possible to overcome the supposed exclusionary dichotomy between nature and culture, feminine and masculine, by proposing a decolonial ethics of ambiguity that embraces such categories within a non-binary vision?