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Brindis de Salas is the first Black woman in Latin America to publish a book. The 1947 title Pregón de Marimorena discussed the exploitation and discrimination against Black women in Uruguay. 24.
[7] and Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives (Greenwood Press, 1978). She has also co-edited a book with Rosalva Loreto on the colonial theatre written for religious women, El universo de la Teatralidad en Nueva España. Siglos XVII-XIX. She was a senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford, 2008),. [8]
Latin American feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and achieving equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for Latin American women. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.
In Latin America, the 19th century was a time of revolution with Nationalist movements and Independence Wars erupting throughout the Spanish colonies, many led by Simón Bolívar. Women were not simply spectators or support for men in the wars of Latin America, but took up arms, acted as spies and informants, organizers and nurses. [110]
The most compactly organized feminist movement in South America in the early 20th century was in Chile. [citation needed] There were three large organizations which represented three different classes of people: the Club de Señoras of Santiago represented the more prosperous women; the Consejo Nacional de Mujeres represented the working class, such as schoolteachers; other laboring women ...
In her new book, "Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels," journalist Deborah Bonello introduces readers to the powerful women who run some of the region's most violent and ...
In 2011, León and Deere co-author the book Land and Property Rights in Latin America, a multidisciplinary analysis of gender and property in Latin America that has served as a reference in analyzes of inequality and gender in the region. The work proposes the comparison of the situation of married women in Latin America comparing them with ...
Latin American Theology from the Perspective of Women, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 1993. La Teología, La Iglesia y La Mujer en América Latina [Theology, the Church and Women in Latin America], Yendo-American Press, Bogotá, Colombia, 1994. Teología Feminista Latinoamerica [Latin American Feminist Theology], coauthored with Elsa Tamez, Ed ...