Feminism and Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Latin America
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Gisela Zaremberg
and Conny Roggeband
About this book
Feminism and Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Latin America analyzes the complex interaction between feminism and anti-gender movements, illustrating ongoing struggles and outcomes in the region. It focuses specifically on disputes around sexual and reproductive rights.
The book provides an original relational framework analysis of the different actors, institutions, and levels of political regimes involved in the advancements and setbacks regarding these rights. It also shines a light on the roles that civil society movements and social media influence these disputes.
- Current phenomena analyzed through a relational framework from different sub-regions in Latin America
- Unique analysis of how disputes over progressive rights relate to wider advancements and setbacks concerning democratic regimes
Author / Editor information
Gisela Zaremberg is a Professor Researcher Full Time in the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Campus Mexico. She is the Academic Coordinator of the Master's Program in Public Policy and Gender. Her research interests focus on gender studies, feminist governance, democratic backsliding, and anti-gender conservatives.
Conny Roggeband lectures at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include gender equality policies, gender-based violence, social movements, and transnational feminist networking. Her current work deals with democratic backsliding and anti-gender politics in Europe and Latin America.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 A contested arena. Conservative actors in legal abortion politics in Latin America: the cases of Chile and Uruguay
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Chapter 2 Coalitions against abortion advocacy: conservatism, alliances and criminalizing strategies in Central America
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Chapter 3 Weaving networks in the legislature: the Anti-racist Feminist Parliamentary Front in Brazil and its blocking strategies to anti-abortion actors
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Chapter 4 Opposition to gender equality: actors and the activism against abortion rights in the Bolsonaro government (2019 –22)
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Chapter 5 Feminism resisting anti-gender activism in subnational Argentina: legal and public health struggles to confront conservative judicialization
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Chapter 6 The digital conversation around the hashtag “Don’t mess with my kids” (#ConMisHijosNoTeMetas): genesis, adoptions and resignifications of a conservative slogan
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Chapter 7 “Pro-life” denial: how feminists and antifeminists mobilize the sciences in the arguments about abortion
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Chapter 8 Parental pin in Mexico: feminist governance and contested narratives
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