Feminisms, resistance and emancipation
Latin American and Caribbean feminisms have contributed and have much to contribute to the struggles for social transformation; they are the clearest guarantee that it will actually happen.
In our CLACSO Working Group on Feminisms, Resistance and EmancipationWe aim to highlight the innovative political practices that feminisms in the region have been developing, and their resistance and struggles, in situations where the hostile environment becomes an incentive for women's organizations.
Based on a pluralistic and democratic conception, feminisms propose a different way of doing politics. Feminisms offer a different way of interpreting reality, denouncing denied or excluded problems, making women visible in their experiences of abuse but also in their contributions to society, denaturalizing the patriarchal systems of violence in which they have historically been socialized, and proposing alternative forms of political expression and mobilization. Resisting the brutal attack on social reproduction, women have entered the political arena with their positions, their strength, and their strategies.
Given that other transformations have failed, the challenge now is to avoid repeating old practices. The demands of the feminist struggle are, in essence, demands for women's citizenship rights, but a diverse and inclusive citizenship that recognizes those who have been oppressed and rendered invisible. The feminist movement, by emerging and making itself visible through the occupation of public space and as an instance of collective action, protest, and proposals, brings with it new challenges in responding to the changing realities of our region.
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Patricia Rodríguez López
Economic Research Institute
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alba Carosio
Center for Women's Studies
Central University of Venezuela
Venezuela
Members:
Alba Carosio (Coord.), Patricia Rodríguez López (Coord.), Alicia Girón González, Ana Silvia Monzón, Claudia María García Muñoz, Elisa Valdivieso Ide, Estela Machicado, Eugenia Correa, Gabriela Arguedas, Graciela Di Marco, Indhira Rodríguez, Laiany Santos, Losandro Antonio Tedeschi, Lucy Mirtha Ketterer Romero, Mabela Bellucci, Magdalena León T., Magdalena Valdivieso Ide, Magela Romero Almodóvar, María Betania Ávila, María Elena Alva, María Luisa González Marín, Martha Patricia Castañeda Salgado, Montserrat Sagot R, Nioe Víquez Moreno, Norma Vasallo, Patricia Duarte, Pablo Gómez, Raquel Drovetta, Silvia Berger, Susana Rostagnol, Tania Eliaz, Verónica Karina Grégori, Joana das Flores Duarte.
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