Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.

'This is a well-integrated set of case studies with a useful and informative introduction by the editors.' - Cathy A. Rakowski, Latin American Research Review

ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityJASMINE GIDEON Researcher of Socio-Economic and Gender Issues, University of ManchesterMALA N. HTUN Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School UniversityMARK P. JONES Department of Political Science, Michigan State UniversityNIKI JOHNSON Researcher, Institute de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, UruguayFIONA MACAULAY Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of LondonSARAH RADCLIFFE Researcher, Department of Geography, University of CambridgeVIRGINIA VARGAS Member of the Peruvian NGO Centro de Mujeres: Flora TristánCERI WILLMOTT Freelance Consultant, Social Development