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OverviewLatin 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane S. JaquettePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9780822344490ISBN 10: 0822344491 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 10 July 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Jane S. Jacquette i Part I. Feminism and the State 1. Feminist Politics in Contemporary Chile: From the Democratic Transition to Bachelet / Marcela Ríos Tobar 21 2. Gender Quotas, Candidate Selection, and Electoral Campaigns: Comparing Argentina and Brazil / Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, and Mariana Caminotti 45 3. Feminist Activism in a Changing Political Context: Venezuela / Gioconda Espina 65 Part II. Legal Strategies and Democratic Institutions 4. The Effectiveness of Legal Strategies in Argentina / Beatríz Kohen 83 5. Violence against Women in Brazil: International Litigation and Local Advances / Flávia Piovesan 113 6. Gender and Human Rights: Lessons from the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Julissa Mantilla Falcón 129 Part III. International and Cross-Border Activities 7. International Feminisms: The World Social Forum / Virginia Vargs 145 8. Social Accountability and Citizen Participation: Are Latin American Governments Meeting Their Commitments to Gender Equity? / Teresa Valdés and Alina Donoso 165 9. Violence and Activism at the Mexico-United States Border: Women, Migration, and Obstacles to Justice / Kathleen Staudt and Gabriela Montoya 186 10. Feminist Activism and the Challenges of Democracy / Jane S. Jacquette 208 Bibliography 219 Contributors 243 Index 247ReviewsFeminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America gives one a sense of the dynamism of feminist thinking in Latin America. The essays address national and regional women's movements' significant yet partial successes over the past twenty years as well as the ways that the movements have more recently confronted urgent political strategy choices such as whether to rely on judicial solutions or to engage with the World Social Forum. --Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America is a valuable text for scholars and students of Latin American feminisms interested in some of the most pressing issues of the day. It assembles accessible and compelling essays by authors with expertise in law and the social sciences, and with personal experiences of political involvement and activism in the contexts they write about. This collection is a fine contribution to the literature on women's movements in Latin America and promises to be a critical reference for dialogues about the future of feminism and gender equity in the region. - Barbara Sutton, A Contracorriente Author InformationJane S. Jaquette is Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics, Emerita at Occidental College in Los Angeles. A past president of both the Association for Women and Development and the Latin American Studies Association, she is the editor of Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice (also published by Duke University Press), Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe (with Sharon Wolchik), and The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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