Latin American FeminismBooks

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.

A foundational interdisciplinary collection defining feminicide as structural gendered violence sustained not only by perpetrators but by state impunity, racial capitalism, and transnational economies.

An edited collection on social justice, citizenship, and democratizing struggles led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A comparative study asking what women contribute to revolutions - and what revolutionary movements, victories, defeats, and transitions subsequently do to women and feminist politics.

An edited volume on women's participation in revolutionary, leftist, and radical politics across Latin America.

A historical collection on gender, state formation, citizenship, family, law, and power in Latin America.

Nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct Latin American women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship.

A comparative account of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile.

A study of women in socialist Cuba, examining revolution, sexuality, work, family, and state gender policy.

A comparative study of women's movement participation, democratization, and political change in Latin America.