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Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Latin American studies & Latin Americans.

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Urgency Praxis, Sexual Violence and Feminist Knowledge Production in Guatemalan Truth-Telling

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the experiences of workers and the development of feminist analysis in the Interdiocesan Recuperation of Historical Memory project (REMHI, 1994-1998) and the Historical Clarification Commission (CEH, 1997-1999), two truth-telling processes in Guatemala that operated during these broader historical shifts.
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What’s to come is more complicated: feminist visions of peace in Colombia

TL;DR: The years following the Colombian Congress' 2016 approval of peace accords with the country's oldest and largest guerrilla army have brought into stark relief Cynthia Enloe's assertion that “wars d...
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The Gendered Burden of Development in Nicaragua

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that one of the consequences of social policy and poverty alleviation programs is an increase in women's daily workload, which they call the gendered burden of development, by exploiting women's unpaid community care labor, these non-governmental organizations (NGO) and state-led programs entrench established gender roles and responsibilities.
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Lost in Translation: Challenging (White, Monolingual Feminism's) with Justicia Reproductiva

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the reproductive rights realities of Spanish-speaking, migrant Latin@s by analyzing the interplay of cultural and linguistic difference, ideology, and translation, and argue that advances White, monolingual feminism, while eliding and even erasing more precarious positionalities and perspectives.
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Left Parties and Violence against Women Legislation in Mexico

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine a qualitative historical study with a statistical analysis of the most recent wave of policy reform to investigate whether governments with stronger left parties are more likely to implement comprehensive violence against women (VAW) laws.