Overview
- Provides an updated comparative overview of women’s rights movements in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Presents case studies on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru
- Explains why Latin America is the home to the largest and strongest women’s rights movements in the Global South
Part of the book series: Latin American Societies (LAS)
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About this book
This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the existing literature. It brings together case studies of nine countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru – and includes a comparative analysis of the overall evolution of women’s rights movements across the region during the past decades. This analysis shows Latin America as the home to the largest, strongest, and most densely regionally and globally interconnected women’s rights movements in the Global South.
Each chapter in this volume seeks to understand where the struggles for women’s rights come from, how they stand today and where they are headed to. To do so, they all use qualitative methodologies, and most resort to first-hand accounts of the processes described and reflections by the actors on their own experiences, collected through surveys, in-depth interviewsand/or ethnographic observations. The comparative analysis of the different national case studies reveals the main struggles in which women’s rights movements are currently involved in Latin America and the Caribbean: the quest for political representation within the State and its political institutions; the fight against gender violence and the struggle for sexual and reproductive rights – especially abortion rights.
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. It will be of special interest to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and other social scientists working in interdisciplinary fields such as gender and social movements studies.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Rights in Movement
Book Subtitle: Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Editors: Inés M. Pousadela, Simone R. Bohn
Series Title: Latin American Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39182-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39181-1Published: 12 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39184-2Due: 12 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39182-8Published: 11 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-5538
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5546
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 210
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics and Gender