Twenty-first-century feminismos: women's movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

Simone Bohn and Charmain Levy's Twenty-first-century feminismos offers a thorough exploration of recent women's and feminist movements in eight countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. Divided into ten chapters, the volume traces the local, national and transnational histories, as well as the socio-political dynamics of feminist mobilizing. Its varied, in-depth case-studies provide an overview of the contemporary movements in light of the historical developments of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This interdisciplinary book makes important contributions to various fields, including gender studies, Latin American studies and political science. Despite its breadth and diversity, there are recurring themes that emerge throughout the chapters. These fall into three broad categories: struggles for autonomy (be it reproductive, Indigenous or anti-imperialist); alliances and tensions between institutional and autonomous approaches to social change; and the production of knowledge grounded in the lived experiences of the movements. This last point is further reflected in the composition of the volume, as more than half of the chapters are translated from French, Spanish or Portuguese. Hence, the contributors provide insights into new sites of analysis and theorizing within anglophone literature.