Latin American Feminism

Edited by Lívia De Souza Lima, Edith Otero Quezada, and Julia Roth, this open-access collection connects feminist theory, embodied histories, and activist forms without treating the Americas as one tradition.

A comparative study of constitutional law in eleven Latin American jurisdictions, tracing gender-rights innovation alongside gaps in reasoning and implementation.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.

Katherine M. Marino recovers Latin American feminists as architects of global women’s rights, tracing how leadership and social justice reshaped Pan-American organizing.

A feminist reading of Latin American case law on reproductive autonomy, property, violence and queer family recognition - and the limits of judicial equality.

An oral history of Zapatista women’s cooperatives, the Women’s Revolutionary Law, and the unfinished struggle over land, care, and community autonomy.

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.

Aymara feminist thinker Julieta Paredes examines patriarchy as a historical relation and asks how shared life, bodies and community can become sites of transformation.

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

Melina Masnatta traces how gender shapes who is encouraged into technology, from childhood and education to professional workplaces, and asks what institutions can change.

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.

Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso examines how coloniality shapes feminist knowledge and challenges the assumption of a universal experience of ‘woman’.