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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 ...
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 ...
Of the first, she questions its androcentric perspective; the second, its assimilation of the paradigms of liberal modernity and its excessive emphasis on cultural identity issues, disdaining the socioeconomic reality of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. and in Latin America. [9] In 1992, her doctoral thesis, Nuestro clamor por la vida.
Feminism in Latin America runs through Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. 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.
In this excerpt from her book 'Narcas,' veteran journalist Deborah Bonello uncovers some of the powerful women inside the macho world of Latin America's brutal drug gangs.
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.
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]
Norma Chinchilla (born 1945) is an American sociologist. Chinchilla taught women's, gender and sexuality studies, and was instrumental in the development of Central American research being incorporated into the field of Latin American studies.