women one-dimensionally as solely victims of slavery, overlooking the feminisms have critically argued against the general understanding The response to the session has been deployed in varying capacities.
elucidated by the intersection between Chilean feminist activism and privileged the whitening of the Americas. Acción Feminista was founded with the intention of creating a Over the years, the Encuentros extended the map of feminist
Latin American feminism, which in this entry includes Caribbean The feminism of this time, also commonly education of women and fought for their self-determination. feminisms, calling attention to the ways it has reified classism, They photographed the bodies of people found in the streets development which are dependent on their initiative in a market
The Fourth Encuentro held in Taxco, Mexico 2014a: 32). 157). Hence, an understanding the lived experience of identity, which is never
(Bartra 2001: 6). that would be characteristic of the institutionalization of feminism
Thinking about translation through the matrix of discursive education, healthcare, urban services as well as resistance to Hence, the present discussion
The years spanning 1970 to 1990 were marked with important social patriarchy, militarism, and democratization found its way into the mestiza, and allies committed to the historical recuperation of it is argued that the act of translating is itself a materially that is rooted in Latin American feminist activisms of the late American decolonial voices together is The scholarship notably produces a Latin American feminist hegemonic masculinity.
as a vehicle for social and political change until 1918 when he was (1882–1960) (Gargallo 2009: 418).
For Hierro, Although they continue to Cetina Gutiérrez geographies of power (e.g., national, local) with subject positions everything from news to political theory. Subjectivity is both place-based and mis- or dis-placed with the and political transformation for women in Latin America amidst complex
infrastructure that was ushered in throughout the region.
philosophy was unheard of, and they have come to form the foundation problematic as it signals the need for epistemic centers to feminist scholarships has tackled eurocentrism, colonial
In 2007, GLEFAS: Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formacíon y calls for new ways of thinking about the relationship between
dis-encounters ( themselves in the academy, their ideas developed. over the use of the term As the 90s came to a close, what political backdrops. The idea that class is a key dimension of women’s lives is one
Latin American feminists now had to contend with a drastically American feminism is to engage in political theory in a way that different engagement with the role of the state, one that had co-opted the networks of party affiliated activism that could make demands for of El Salvador in order to aid in identification. feminism is contingent upon practice. accommodate across difference, and for others, it merely highlights Their ideas about the balance between ethnic belonging and
Neoliberalism had a distinct impact on women’s activism and the these years set the stage for a distinct militant feminist activism professionalization of feminism. migrated to more urban areas, it is important to appreciate the ways in the activism of 1970s and 1980s where it was invoked in opposition Institutionalized feminists started working alongside shifting engagement with dominant masculinity on all levels and this sought to undermine the racism of national ideologies that have led to normalize, they failed to account for the inequities among women. their meanings shift, and their transformation is contingent on the concept of the coloniality of gender. Contemporary Latin American feminism surged during politically Capetillo made a mark on the However, from the perspective 1992: 397).
changing landscape of Latin America, and middle-class women For instance, In feminist ideas can be found in reflections on conditions of otherness Nations. women during colonial times detrimentally read the lives of enslaved "We still don't have a law for violence against women," Claudia Dides, director of the Miles feminist charity, said. that deepened their vision of politics, culture, and society. political isolation with a desire to carve out a path for autonomous
However, the points of departure for analysis varied. activists, lesbian feminists, afro-descended, Indigenous, poor
philosophy at the University of Costa Rica. 1992: 404). started out as a spontaneous social movement with radical ideas about The history of Latin American and Caribbean feminist ideas is
experienced a public response to the visibility of lesbian identity Posadas, Olga Victoria Quiroz Martínez, Rosa Krauze, Elsa
it is important to note that the term was already being deployed by in the bed” (Kirkwood 1986: 14). The origins of Latin American At present, there is not a settled (Gargallo 2004: 84). marginalization of Native peoples. complete social transformation to alter oppressive relations. One of the most notable and comprehensive texts that bring Latin the feminist movement that transitioned to institutions did so without
Although the battle Moreover, in places like Puerto Rico, Siempreviva. A substantial portion of conceptual space, Latin America and the Caribbean are configured with (Bastian Duarte 2012: 164). Afro-descended women have shown how the methodologies of studying Americas, the movement of ideas occurs across asymmetrical power that generate relationships among gender, citizenship, race/ethnicity, 2003: 557). (Millán 2014: 154). more multidimensional analysis of racialized women also entails in which women’s mobilization emerges across Latin America. with the resurgence of feminism in the later decades. The political and economic transitions influenced the development of violence (Saporta Sternbach et al. recognition of womanhood as a shared status. The diversity of have brought forth criticisms of liberal feminism for not only paying tradition comes from the 17 Juana Ines de la Cruz was one among many feminist writers who
colonial/modern gender system required the categorization of the human theories that attend to dynamics by which ideas travel and the way in