Indigenous Women's Movements in Latin America

Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-349-95719-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 225 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morales Hudon, Anahi

Rousseau, Stéphanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Indigenous women’s movements: An intersectional approach to studying social movements .- 2. Indigenous movements merge into party and state politics .- 3.Indigenous women transform the politics of representing women .- 4. Indigenous self-determination: from national dialogues to local autonomies .- 5. Indigenous women’s struggle for autonomy .- 6. The “exceptional case” no longer so exceptional .- 7. Indigenous women strengthen the indigenous movement .- 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Stéphanie Rousseau is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is the author of Women’s Citizenship in Peru and also published several articles and book chapters on indigenous politics and women’s movements in Bolivia and Peru. She previously worked as Associate Professor at Université Laval, Canada. Anahi Morales Hudon is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Canada. She has published articles on indigenous women’s movements in Mexico—Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero—in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Sociologie et Sociétés, and Recherches Féministes.