Seeking Rights from the Left

Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
Herausgeber: Friedman, Elisabeth Jay

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001522
• ISBN-10: 1478001526
• Artikelnr.: 50438044

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Jay Friedman, editor

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Amy Lind  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and
Constanza Tabbush  1
1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in
Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural
Inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol  48
2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in
Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza
Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller  82
3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender
and Sexuality Rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas  115
4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression
in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State / Marlise Matos 
144
5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women's and
LGBT Rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax  173
6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the
State in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Rachel Elfenbein  200
7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution: "Restituting the Rights" of
Women and Sexual Diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas  235
8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution (2007-17): A Lost Decade for Women's Rights
and Gender Equality / Annie Wilkinson  269
Afterword. Maneuvering the "U-Turn": Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide
and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the
Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez  305
Contributors  313
Index  317