ISBN:
9781403914118
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (242 pages)
Series Statement:
Women's Studies at York Ser.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.42097999999999
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 The Local, the Regional and the Global: Transforming the Politics of Rights -- 2 Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-making: Electoral Quotas and Women's Leadership in Latin America -- 3 Getting Rights for Those without Representaiton: the Success of Conjunctural Coalition-building in Venezuela -- 4 Taking the Law into their Own Hands: Women, Legal Reform and Legal Literacy in Brazil -- 5 In Pursuit of the Right to be Free from Violence: the Women's Movement and State Accountability in Uruguay -- 6 Constructing Citizenship in the Poblaciónes of Santiago, Chile: the Role of Reproductive and Sexual Rights -- 7 Indigenous Women, Rights and the Nation-State in the Andes -- 8 Economic and Social Rights: Exploring Gender Differences in a Central American Context -- 9 The Struggle by Latin American Feminisms for Rights and Autonomy -- Appendix -- Index.
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