Feminism In Latin America Research Articles

Global feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Global feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Performance, Protest, and Feminism in Latin America

How do activists in Latin America fight for change both online and in the streets? This piece narrates a course on Feminist Protest and Performance in Latin America that explores the limits and possibilities of feminist activism in physical and digital spaces. At this critical historical juncture, feminists across the hemisphere are organizing en masse to demand change and justice, to denounce pervasive misogyny and gender violence, and to envision and realize another world. Drawing on a long history of struggle, they are engaging in performance artivism across multiple platforms including Las Tesis piece El Violador Eres Tu (The rapist is you), under the hashtags #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess) and #AbortoLegalYa (#LegalizeAbortionNow), and in massive physical occupations and protests like #OcupaEscola (#OccupyTheSchools). They are mobilizing to condemn femicide, to advocate access to legal abortions in public hospitals, and to introduce comprehensive sex education in public schools. Drawing on these interconnected forms of performance and protest, what Marcela Fuentes refers to as “performance constellations,” women and disidencias sexuales are fighting together for the right to live without fear, to make decisions about their own bodies, and to exist in a more just world. This class asks students to learn from Latin American feminst movements and to connect their insights to our intimate and collective experiences. Beyond the syllabus, this piece offers reflections on the philosophy of co-teaching, transnational activism across the Americas, and modes of embodiment that can happen online. We invite students and educators alike to consider what it might mean to “perform well” in a university class focused on pleasure and solidarity.

AURA CUMES E A CRÍTICA AO PATRIARCADO COLONIAL DESDE AS MARGENS

This presentation to the article by Aura Cumes represents the debates on feminism in Latin America that have strengthened and expanded in recent years around issues related to gender, ethnicity, and class struggle; themes addressed in different approaches and political agendas. Cumes adopts perspectives that are related to intersectional feminism, supported by intense discussions of political, social, and cultural scope, in which feminism rearticulated itself by integrating local demands and problems, with an intense appreciation of ethnic and cultural heterogeneity, composing a plurinational society.

Ethnocentrism and Coloniality in Latin American Feminisms: The Complicity and Consolidation of Hegemonic Feminists in Transnational Spaces

AbstractThis article applies the theses of Chandra Mohanty and Gayatri Spivak to Latin America in order to advance criticisms of discursive colonization by Western feminisms. It also provides an analysis “from within” to observe the coloniality of feminism in Latin America, denouncing its white-bourgeois origin and its collaboration with hegemonic Northern feminisms. It seeks to show how, since the 1990s, hegemonic feminism in Latin America has been complicit in projects of recolonization of the subcontinent by the central countries in the production of a subaltern subject, “the female other of the female other.”

An Autonomous-Feminist Statement: The Challenge for Developing Community in La Casa de las Diferencias

AbstractThis autonomous-feminist statement is a collective work born from a gathering at the Autonomous Feminist Encounter [Encuentro Feminista Autónomo] in Mexico City in 2009. This piece gives a historical review of so-called autonomous feminism in Latin America and poses a definition and vision of its praxis, taking into account the socio-political-economic context in Latin America in the early 2000s. This article also recognizes feminist groups that started the critique of hegemonic feminist praxis in the region.

Decolonial Feminism in Latin America: An Essential Anthology

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Amefricanity: A Black Feminist Proposal for a Political Organization and Social Transformation

AbstractThis article analyzes the work and thought of Lélia Gonzalez on the experience of Black women in Brazil. It highlights her legacy within studies of Black Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the importance of her articulation between sex, class, and race with the intention of understanding the social inequality Indigenous and Black women suffer. Gonzalez's political-cultural category of Amefricanity is presented in this article as an instrument of analysis specific to the region, which promotes an epistemological shift within Black feminism. This category seeks to interpret the stories and survival strategies of previous generations of Black women on the continent, as well as to learn their methods and transgressive practices of asymmetrical power relations as pedagogical processes.

Communitarian Feminism in Latin America

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and its possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the common? In his reply, Luis Martinez Andrade situates his answer in the Latin American context by drawing our attention to the contemporary struggles of communitarian feminists and indigenous movements.

Feminismos descoloniales latinoamericanos: geopolítica, resistencia y Relaciones Internacionales

El feminismo descolonial latinoamericano nace con una fuerte influencia del feminismo autónomo latinoamericano que, a partir de 1980-1990, comenzó un proceso de desarrollo de pensamiento y prácticas políticas de resistencia para visibilizar la desigualdad de raza, etnia, clase, sexo y género en que viven buena parte de las mujeres de América Latina. Se propone desmontar la adscripción categorial de occidente tanto en lo académico como en lo político, por ello tiene vital importancia en y para las relaciones internacionales. Uno de los retos del pensamiento descolonial ha sido comprender la dimensión global y su conexión con lo local para repensar las posibles alternativas políticas a la globalización neoliberal y a la colonialidad, y en ese sentido adquiere carácter geopolítico. Interesa: 1) Explicar el feminismo descolonial en América Latina y diferenciarlo de otras formas de feminismo, especialmente, del feminismo postcolonial. 2) Determinar las fuentes de la cuales se nutre y las concepciones ontológicas, epistemológicas, estéticas y éticas que le caracterizan. 3) Determinar las prácticas políticas colectivas que le preceden y sus propuestas de transformación sociopolíticas y, finalmente, 4) revisar su utilidad en el ámbito de las Relaciones Internacionales. Se concluye que es un pensamiento altamente estratégico porque considera el valor de otras epistemologías, ontologías, éticas y estéticas para pensar el mundo fuera de los discursos de derecha e izquierda.

International Women’s Day in the Brazilian Countryside: New Forms of Political Protest and Resistance

This paper examines new forms of political protest and resistance carried out by Brazilian peasant women during the celebration of International Women’s Day. Since 2006, the Brazilian women of La Via Campesina (International Peasant Movement) have taken radical action in order to reclaim 8 March as an international day of struggle by women workers and to question the political, cultural and economic model of development. Their efforts to break the silence about the social and environmental impact of the expanding ‘green desert’ created by the eucalyptus monoculture of the big paper companies in Brazil provides a remarkable case of women’s subversive agency. Based on the documentary Rompendo o Silencio ( Breaking the Silence ), produced by La Via Campesina to record the action taken by 2,000 women on International Women’s Day in 2006, as well as interviews with women from the organisation who took part in that event, this study argues that peasant women’s radical action provides new insights for the analysis of feminism in Latin America and worldwide. It also demonstrates that through their radical and collective actions, which challenge traditional forms of participation and gender roles, peasant women have become one of the major forces within the current movement campaigning for the development of an agro-ecological and sustainable agriculture in Brazil. Keywords : women, feminism, La Via Campesina, social movements, green desert, Brazil.

Feminismo e Comunicação – questão científica e política. Entrevista com Aimée Vega Montiel

A mexicana Aimée Vega Montiel destaca-se entre os pesquisadores da comunicação por seu envolvimento com a temática feminista e por sua participação política, seja por meio de cargos em associações, seja pelas ações engajadas aos direitos humanos das mulheres. Nesta entrevista, Aimée fala de comunicação e feminismo, contando sobre sua trajetória de pesquisa, suas investigações mais recentes e avaliando o momento dos estudos em comunicação e feminismo na América Latina.

The Emergence of Indigenous Feminism in Latin America

In this article I present a brief summary of the processes that gave rise to the indigenous women’s movement in Latin America and describe the diverse political genealogies that influence a culturally situated feminist agenda. This article also reflects on the processes of globalization from below that are emerging as indigenous women organize throughout the Americas.

Empowering women: land and property rights in Latin America

The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.

Dynamics of Change in Latin American Literature: Contemporary Women Writers

Over the last twenty-five years Latin American societies have undergone profound changes. Where once the legalized abuses of dictatorships gave new meaning to the word "silence" for both men and women, now large segments of the population fight hard to sustain democratic regimes throughout the Continent. Repressive governments are being replaced, and shattered economies have begun to recover. Encouraged by the ever-increasing strength of international feminism, Latin American women (from Chiapas, Mexico, to Plaza de Mayo in Argentina) have risen to play key roles in this socio-political reformation. The writing of female authors has proliferated in this environment, and the literary canon of our time has been enriched. This article examines first the impact of twenty-five years of feminism in Latin America, and second, the status of contemporary Latin American women writers within a global context.

Philosophical Feminism in Latin America and Spain: An Introduction

Introduction to the special cluster of feminist philosophy papers from Spain and Latin America.

Women's movements and feminism in Latin America

Abstract Abstract In February, Martha de la Fuente talked informally with Tiab from Thailand and Alice from London about feminism and women's movements in Latin America.

Socialist Feminism in Latin America

The women's movement around the world takes many stances, including women's rights, feminism, women's research, women's auxilaries of political and religious organizations and socialist feminism. Because of its unique political and economic history, socialist feminism is the dominant emergent stance of the women's movement in Latin America. Brazil, Peru, and the Dominican Republic are examined. Socialist feminism is related to both the international women's movement, political trends within each county and constraints of the current political situation. Women's movements in other Latin American countries are also briefly discussed.

Socialist feminism in Latin America

Socialist feminism in Latin America