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Then in the 1920s, feminism was reignited and moved towards political and educational changes for women's rights. In the 1930-50s a Puerto Rican group of women founded what is now considered the current movement for Latin American women. Some of these movements included founding the needle industry such as working as sewists in factories. Then ...
Latin America has incredibly high rates of femicide; according to a study at least 12 women suffer from gender-based violence daily. Additionally, 14 out of the 25 countries with the highest rates of gender-based violence can be found in Latin America. [8] The primary age group that is a victim of this sort of violence are young women aged 15 ...
Nash played an important role in establishing gender as an area of study in Latin America. Her edited volumes Sex and Class in Latin America (1976) with Helen Safa and Women, Men and the International Division of Labor with Maria P. Fernandez-Kelly both anticipated future scholarship in which sex and gender were analyzed as unique areas of inquiry.
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The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent ...
The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros (Spanish: Encuentros Feministas Latinoamericanas y del Caribe) are a series conferences which began in 1981 to develop transnational networks within the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main focus of the conferences was to discuss and evaluate how women's marginalization and ...
It’s a pandemic within the pandemic. Across Latin America, gender-based violence has spiked since COVID-19 broke out.Almost 1,200 women disappeared in Peru between March 11 and June 30, the ...
The push for the inclusion of marginal, othered groups like Afro-Latinx, Indigenous and Lesbian women was reflected in The Eighth Encuentro held in 1999 in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. [3] Anti-neoliberal discourse was also added to Latin American feminisms during this time in addition to decolonial and anti-patriarchal discussions. [3]