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Books · Jan 2024
Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America
Francisca Pou Giménez, Ruth Rubio-Marín, Verónica Undurraga ValdésA comparative constitutional study of gender equality, women's rights, and LGBTQIA+ subordination across Latin American jurisdictions.
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Books · Mar 2023
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
Rosa-Linda FregosoA decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.
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Books · Aug 2020
Feminism for the Americas
Katherine M. MarinoA revisionist history showing how Latin American and Caribbean feminists helped build international women’s rights and human-rights institutions while contesting US dominance inside Pan-American organizing.
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Books · Jan 2013
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Cristina Motta, Macarena SáezThrough rulings on citizenship, family, health, property, and violence, this casebook examines how Latin American courts expand or restrict women’s and LGBTI rights.
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Books · Jun 2010
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia L. Bejarano (eds.)A foundational interdisciplinary collection defining feminicide as structural gendered violence sustained not only by perpetrators but by state impunity, racial capitalism, and transnational economies.
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Articles · Jan 2020
Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Commission on Human RightsA regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.
02Articles · Jan 2019
Afrodescendent Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Debts of Equality
Economic Commission for Latin America and the CaribbeanA regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.
03Articles · Oct 2013
Indigenous Women in Latin America: Demographic and Social Dynamics in a Human-Rights Framework
ECLAC / CELADE / Gender Equality ObservatoryA regional evidence base on Indigenous women’s physical, economic, and political autonomy that also exposes how statistical invisibility limits rights, policy, and accountability.
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Papers · Mar 2016
Ending Violence against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context
Conny RoggebandA study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.
02Papers · Jan 2014
Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Religion, Law and Power
Sylvia TamaleSylvia Tamale analyzes how colonial law, organized religion, nationalism, and contemporary politics manufacture supposedly timeless African sexual norms and police nonconforming bodies.