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Feminisms in Latin America

Pro-choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil

Gisela Zaremberg author Debora Rezende de Almeida author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Dec '22

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Plurality within feminist networks and access to the state strengthen feminist's abilities to face conservative antiabortion attacks.

This Element analyzes the features of current feminist movements in Latin America and their responses to conservative reactions. It explores how feminists, leveraging their plurality and connection with the state, can counter conservative attacks.This Element analyzes the features of current feminist movements in Latin America and their responses to conservative reactions. For this, it focuses on the pro-choice movement vis-à-vis the anti-abortion countermovement in Mexico and Brazil. It offers a relational approach embracing the dynamics within the feminist field and between feminism and the state to capture the movements' potential effects. First, the Element proposes the concept of nested feminist networks, which comprises of three dimensions revealing the plurality of the movement across intersectional and sexual identity issues (horizontal), its relationship with the multifaceted state (vertical), and the intermediation of political parties and participatory institutions in this relationship (intermediary). Second, it argues that nested networks allow feminists to enable policies and block actions from conservatives. In sum, it explores how feminists, leveraging their plurality and connection with the state, can counter conservative attacks.

'The authors have cast light on some of the most important and contentious issues within contemporary feminism and point to some important lessons in political strategy.' Maxine Molyneux, Journal of Latin American Studies

ISBN: 9781108825962

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 6mm

Weight: 150g

75 pages