Latin American Feminism

A contemporary collection placing street movements, Black and decolonial theory, Indigenous ecological knowledge, queer practice, and art across the Americas on one political map.

A comparative constitutional study of gender equality, women's rights, and LGBTQIA+ subordination across Latin American jurisdictions.

A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.

A 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.

An oral-history account of Indigenous women’s participation in the Zapatista movement and their unfinished struggle to transform political leadership, domestic life, land, health, and education.

Through rulings on citizenship, family, health, property, and violence, this casebook examines how Latin American courts expand or restrict women’s and LGBTI rights.

Three girls grow up in a Mexican poppy-growing region where mothers disguise daughters from armed men, making girlhood, friendship, and protective care the center of narco-violence.

A tropical melodrama about two sisters separated by patriarchal deception, revealing how women’s ambitions, labor, sexuality, and kinship are made invisible in mid-century Brazil.

A trans woman’s struggle to grieve her partner becomes a precise study of how families, medicine, police, and property law decide whose love and personhood are credible.

Through an Indigenous Peruvian woman living with inherited fear, the film examines how wartime sexual violence survives in bodies, households, music, and unequal relations of service.

Mexican journalist and activist Verónica Villalvazo explains the daily work of documenting feminicide and accompanying families when official institutions allow victims to disappear twice.

Kichwa activist Nina Gualinga connects Amazon defense to Indigenous women’s leadership and to the gendered intimidation faced by those who protect territory from extraction.

Mexican cartoonist Cynthia Híjar argues that feminist humor can expose everyday machismo, create shared recognition, and sustain movements without trivializing pain.