Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America
Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia
Stephanie Rousseau author Anahi Morales Hudon author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:4th Jul '18
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This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.
ISBN: 9781349957194
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
225 pages
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017