Women’s Rights in Movement

Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Women’s Rights in Movement: Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean will be a valuable resource for researchers, activists and policy makers interested in the struggles for women’s rights not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but in different parts of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-12
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt347 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLatin American Societies
Antal sidor210
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031391842

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Inés M. Pousadela is a Professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay (Comparative Politics, Global Civil Society) and Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. She holds a PhD in Political Science (UB, Argentina), a Masters’ degree in Economic Sociology (IDAES-UNSAM, Argentina) and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science (UBA, Argentina). She has published several books, book chapters and journal articles on political representation, social mobilization, women’s rights, civil society, participation and accountability, as well as various resources for civil society practitioners in Latin America. Simone Bohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on political parties in South America, gender and politics in Brazil, and the study of political tolerance and attitudes towards corruption in Latin America. She is the co-editor of Mothers in Public andPolitical Life (2017) and 21st Century Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean (forthcoming). Dr. Bohn is currently working on a SSHRC-funded research project about Brazil’s women’s policy agency. Her articles have been published in several scholarly journals, such as Politics and Government, Latin American Research Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and Comparative Governance and Politics.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Feminists by Default? Women’s Rights and Social Change in Argentina.- Chapter 3. A Heterogeneous Women’s Movement from a Post-colonial, Unequal Society: The Case of Brazil.- Chapter 4. Chile’s Feminist Spring: Impasse and continuity of women’s demands for a life free of sexism.- Chapter 5. Feminist and women’s activism in Colombia.- Chapter 6. The “Right to a Complete Life”: Lessons from the Dominican Feminist Movement.- Chapter 7. Between institutionalisation and militancy of affection: a journey through feminisms in Ecuador .- Chapter 8. Historical time and stages of feminism in Mexico.- Chapter 9. Feminisms in Nicaragua: a century of revolutions, autonomous mobilisations and dictatorships.- Chapter 10. Feminisms in Peru in a context of crisis.