Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America write by Maxine Molyneux. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America
Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America write by Tomáš Došek. This book was released on 2017-01-04. Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and outside institutions. Secondly, the book explores barriers in political reality, such as gender legislation implementation, public administration and international cooperation, and proposes solutions, supported by successful experiences, emphasising the nonlinearity of the implementation process. Thirdly, the authors highlight the role of women in politics at the subnational level. The book combines academic expertise in various disciplines with contributions from practitioners within national and international institutions to broaden the reader’s understanding of women in Latin American politics.
Sex and the State
Sex and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and the State write by Mala Htun. This book was released on 2003-04-07. Sex and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere.
Women and Democracy
Women and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Democracy write by Jane S. Jaquette. This book was released on 1998-10-07. Women and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world--Latin American and Eastern and Central Europe--which have moved from authoritarian to democratic regimes. By examining various political attitudes and efforts of women as they learn to participate in the political process, contributors offer important new insights into democratic consolidation.
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America write by Jane S. Jaquette. This book was released on 2009-07-10. Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and social changes of the last twenty years. In these essays, leading scholar-activists focus on the various strategies women’s movements have adopted and assess their successes and failures. The book is organized around three broad topics. The first, women’s access to political power at the national level, is addressed by essays on the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, gender quotas in Argentina and Brazil, and the responses of the women’s movement to the “Bolivarian revolution” in Venezuela. The second topic, the use of legal strategies, is taken up in essays on women’s rights across the board in Argentina, violence against women in Brazil, and gender in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru. Finally, the international impact of Latin American feminists is explored through an account of their participation in the World Social Forum, an assessment of a Chilean-led project carried out by women’s organizations in several countries to hold governments to the promises they made at international conferences in Cairo and Beijing, and an account of cross-border organizing to address femicides and domestic abuse in the Juárez-El Paso border region. Jane S. Jaquette provides the historical and political context of women’s movement activism in her introduction, and concludes the volume by engaging contemporary debates about feminism, civil society, and democracy. Contributors. Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti, Alina Donoso, Gioconda Espina, Jane S. Jaquette, Beatriz Kohen, Julissa Mantilla Falcón, Jutta Marx, Gabriela L. Montoya, Flávia Piovesan, Marcela Ríos Tobar, Kathleen Staudt, Teresa Valdés, Virginia Vargas
