Latin American FeminismBooks

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.

An interdisciplinary feminist and human-rights collection on feminicide in the Americas, state impunity, transnational economies, and the justice organizing of victims’ relatives.

Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon’s anthology traces four decades of women’s organizing, citizenship struggles, and feminist politics across 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.

A six-country study of women’s organizing across the Latin American left and right, asking how political agency can coexist with sharply different projects and gender orders.

Edited by Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, this Latin American history collection traces how property, civic ritual, war, and family policy reshaped women’s rights and state power.

Edited by Daniel James and John D. French, nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship across five Latin American countries.

Across six cases in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile, Lynn Stephen examines how women turn survival needs into collective politics - and how alliances can enable yet constrain feminist claims.

Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula trace how Cuba’s revolution changed women’s education, health, work and family life - and why state-backed equality did not end patriarchy or unpaid care.

Jane S. Jaquette's seven-country collection follows Latin American women's organizing from anti-authoritarian resistance into democratic politics.