Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide - Couverture souple

 
9781478001522: Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
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ISBN 10 : 1478001526 ISBN 13 : 9781478001522
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the "Pink Tide" in eight national cases--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela--the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality.

Contributors: Sonia E. Alvarez, María Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas, Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson

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À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth Jay Friedman is Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of San Francisco and the author of several books, including Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1478001526
ISBN 13 
9781478001522
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Éditeur
Friedman
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781478001171: Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide

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ISBN 10 :  1478001178 ISBN 13 :  9781478001171
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2019
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