Jaquette Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9256-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A timely collection examining how womens movements in Latin America have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and social changes of the last twenty years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaquette, Jane S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ríos Tobar, Marcela

Marx, Jutta

Borner, Jutta

Caminotti, Mariana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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 247

Über Autor(innen)

Jane 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.