Feminist movements and States in Latin America and the Caribbean

• A brief history of feminist struggles and demands in Latin America and the Caribbean
• The path of feminist demands within the framework of the State: progress and obstacles
• Public policies, social policies and gender policies: points of convergence and divergence
• Dilemmas or complementarity: redistribution, recognition and autonomy
• Economic empowerment from a feminist perspective
• Women's struggles and gender policies in Central America
• Feminist struggles for sexual and reproductive rights: achievements and pending issues
• Mobilizations, positions and calls for the construction of plural and inclusive feminisms
• Feminist research and educational policies: the implications of research to transform
• Feminist movements as drivers of social change

Alicia Girón (2019) Presentation Myths of Economics: From Globalization to the Great Crisis from a feminist perspective

Anzorena, Claudia (2013) Women in the fabric of the State: a feminist reading of public policies. Mendoza: Ediunc

Blandón Gadea, María Teresa (2011) The Bodies of Nicaraguan Feminism. Nicaragua, La Corriente Feminist Program

Blazquez Graf, Norma; Fátima Flores Palacios and Maribel Ríos Everardo (coords.) (2010) Feminist Research. Epistemology, methodology and social representations. Mexico. CEIICH-CRIM, UNAM

Cabezas González, Almudena (2012) Indigenous Women as Builders of Region: From Latin America to Abya Yala. In: Internationala Magazine, No. 6, Year 4, March 2012.

Canavate Lamus, Doris (2008) The United Nations Global Agenda for “Women” Polis Magazine No. 20 City: spaces and flows

Carneiro, Sueli (2005) “Blackening feminism”

Carosio, Alba (2010) Feminizing policies for sustainable and emancipatory human development, Umbrales Magazine.

Carosio, Alba (coord.) (2012) Feminisms and social change. Buenos Aires: CLACSO

Carosio, Alba: Latin American feminism and its ethical-political project in the 21st century, Venezuelan Journal of Women's Studies July/December, 2009 vol. 14/ No. 33, pp. 1324

Carosio, Alba: We Are the Same. Academia and Feminist Activism in Our South. Paper presented at the 2017 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Lima, Peru, April 29 to May 01, 2017

Castañeda Salgado, Martha Patricia (2014) “Feminist Research: Characterization and Prospects” in Thinking of a Durable World for All, Edgar Montiel, Editor and Coordinator, Lima-Guatemala, UNESCO/UNMSM

Celiberti, Lilian: New Times: Old Challenges. Horizontal Writings: Feminist Challenges. Collective Reflections, in Venezuelan Journal of Women's Studies - July/December 2009. Vol. 14. No. 33 - pp. 71-88

Cumes, Aura (2012) “Indigenous women, patriarchy and colonialism: a challenge to the comprehensive segregation of forms of domination”, in Anuario Hojas de Warmi. 2012, no. 17.

Cumes, Aura (2012) Indigenous women, patriarchy and colonialism: a challenge to the comprehensive segregation of forms of domination. In: Warmi Leaves Yearbook.

Declaration of the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting (1981)

Ecmia, Chirapaq (2015 From silence to the word. Trajectory of the Continental Link of Indigenous Women of the Americas – ECMIA. Lima

Between feminist struggles and conservative responses. Interview with Maxine Molyneux.

Flora Tristan, Why I mention women in The Workers' Union (1843)

Fraser, Nancy (2006) From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas about justice in a “post-socialist” era In: Fraser, Nancy.

Godoy de Castro, Aline et al. (2016) Women's Movement and Feminist Struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean. Buenos Aires: Clacso. Julieta Kirkwood Competition

Justice Interrupted: Critical Reflections from the “Post-Socialist” Position, Chapter I, Bogotá: Siglo de Hombres Editores

Julieta Kirkwood Being political in Chile: feminists and political parties. (1982)

León Magdalena (1993) “Gender in Latin American public policy: neutrality and détente”, Revised version of the paper presented at the XIX Latin American Congress of Sociology, Caracas, May 30 to June 4, 1993.

Lozano Lerma, Betty Ruth “Feminism cannot be one because women are diverse. Contributions to a decolonial black feminism from the experience of black women from the Colombian Pacific”, in La manzana de la discordia, July - December, Year 2010, Vol. 5, No. 2: 7-24

Matos, Marlise and Paradis, Clarisse (2013) Latin American feminisms and their complex relationship with the State: current debates. Iconos. Journal of Social Sciences, no. 45, January, 2013, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Quito, Ecuador

Monzón, Ana Silvia. (2015) Women, feminisms and social movements in Guatemala: relationships, articulations and disagreements. FLACSO-Guatemala.

Monzón, Ana Silvia. 2016. Women and public policies: responses and paradoxes from the State. FLACSO-Guatemala.

Paredes, Julieta and Adriana Guzmán A. (2014) The fabric of rebellion. What is community feminism? La Paz. Community Women Creating Community.

Ribotta, Silvina and Rosetti, Andres (eds)(2015) Social rights and their enforceability. Madrid: Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Institute

Rostagnol, Susana (2016) Gender Relations and Voluntary Abortion. Politics of the Body and Reproduction. Montevideo: CSIC-UDELAR

Sagot, Montserrat (2017) Feminisms, critical thinking and alternative proposals in Latin America. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

Tamayo, Giulia (2001) Under the Skin. Sexual Rights, Reproductive Rights, Lima: Flora Tristán Peruvian Women's Center

Vargas, Virginia. Latin American Feminisms in Their Transition to the New Millennium (A Personal Political Reading). In: Studies and Other Latin American Intellectual Practices in Culture and Power. Daniel Mato (compiler). CLACSO, Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Caracas, Venezuela. 2002.

 

The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

• Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
• Internet access.
• Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
• Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. 48 hours of work with the instructor and 120 hours of total dedication will be credited.

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.

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• Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

• Paying in one payment BEFORE 06/04/2020: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
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