Twenty-first-century feminismos : women's movements in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Simone Bohn and Charmain Levy.

"The women's movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, be...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Bohn, Simone, 1973- (Editor), Levy, Charmain, 1967- (Editor)
Other title:21st-century feminismos.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY FEMINISMOS
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction Taking Stock of Contemporary Feminist Struggles
  • 1 Feminism in Mexico City
  • 2 Contemporary Feminist Struggles in Haiti against Neo-colonialism, NGO-ization and State De-responsibilization
  • 3 Articulated Networks: The Twenty-Year Struggle to Decriminalize Abortion in El Salvador
  • 4 The Grassroots Women's Movement in Colombia
  • 5 Feminist Movements in Chile: Joining forces from Institutions and the Streets toward a New Constitution.
  • 6 In Uruguay, Revolution Re-imagined: Liberty, Equality, Sorority
  • 7 The Women's Movement in Argentina: Much Ado about Everything
  • 8 The Women's Movement in Brazil
  • 9 Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Political Discourse in Three Times
  • 10 Autonomist Feminisms in Brazil: Protest Politics and Feminist Self-Defence
  • Contributors
  • Index.