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Indigenous women's movements in Latin America : gender and ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

Rousseau, Stéphanie, Morales Hudon, Anahi

2017,2016

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,Palgrave Macmillan US
• Subject: Comparative Politics / Ethnicity Studies / Gender Studies / Indigenous women / Indigenous women -- Civil rights -- Latin America / Indigenous women -- Latin America -- Social conditions / Latin America -- Social conditions / Latin America-Politics and gover / Latin American Politics / Political Science and International Relations / Political Science and International Studies / Regionalism / Sex role / Sex role -- Latin America / Social Structure, Social Inequality
• ISBN: 9781349950621, 1349950629