March, Women's Month

"The obsession with what happens in women's bellies

"It is a symbol of a state's weakness" – Rita Segato

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences promoted and actively participated in 8M, within the framework of “March, Women's Month.

As part of this presence in feminist struggles, the Executive Secretary of CLACSO, Karina Batthyány, maintained an in-depth dialogue with the anthropologist and feminist Rita Segato, addressing together various aspects: the journey through the patriarchal history of humanity; the incorporation of women into the public sphere; women and work; the advances in the field of recognition of women's rights; gender violence; sexual and reproductive rights that are still unresolved, among other topics.

You can see this one-on-one between Karina Batthyány and Rita Segato in the following video:

“We see the choice of the girls, of the very young ones, their reflection, their way of arguing, which leaves us at ease, because the feminist position and the discourse of women has already been catapulted into the future.”

Rita Segato

“We cannot deny the progress made in the field of recognizing women’s rights, but we still find major obstacles that make one wonder how at this point, in the 21st century, we continue to have such high levels of gender violence, and we continue to have issues related to sexual and reproductive rights that remain unresolved.”

Karina Batthyány

"The obsession with what happens inside women's bellies is a symbol of a state's weakness."

Rita Segato

We want to show, from a feminist perspective, another way of doing politics. A feminist way of doing politics, which is quite different from politics as we have known it, and especially from politics within the framework of the patriarchal system. For me, that is what March 8th is about, and that is what March, #WomensMonth, is all about.”

Karina Batthyány

“This isn’t about Me Too; Me Too is something else. Ours are two histories that come from different colonizations. In general, I call the northern line of feminism pilgrim feminism, that is, it’s a puritanical feminism.”

Rita Segato