Latin American women's movements played important roles in the
democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in
Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been
written on what has become of these movements and their agendas
since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how
women's movements have responded to the dramatic political,
economic, and social changes of the last twenty years. In these
essays, leading scholar-activists focus on the various strategies
women's movements have adopted and assess their successes and
failures.
The book is organized around three broad topics. The first,
women's access to political power at the national level, is
addressed by essays on the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile,
gender quotas in Argentina and Brazil, and the responses of the
women's movement to the "Bolivarian revolution" in Venezuela. The
second topic, the use of legal strategies, is taken up in essays on
women's rights across the board in Argentina, violence against
women in Brazil, and gender in the work of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in Peru. Finally, the international
impact of Latin American feminists is explored through an account
of their participation in the World Social Forum, an assessment of
a Chilean-led project carried out by women's organizations in
several countries to hold governments to the promises they made at
international conferences in Cairo and Beijing, and an account of
cross-border organizing to address femicides and domestic abuse in
the Juarez-El Paso border region. Jane S. Jaquette provides the
historical and political context of women's movement activism in
her introduction, and concludes the volume by engaging contemporary
debates about feminism, civil society, and democracy.
"Contributors." Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti, Alina Donoso,
Gioconda Espina, Jane S. Jaquette, Beatriz Kohen, Julissa Mantilla
Falcon, Jutta Marx, Gabriela L. Montoya, Flavia Piovesan, Marcela
Rios Tobar, Kathleen Staudt, Teresa Valdes, Virginia Vargas
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