Feminism for the Americas : the making of an international human rights movement

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Title
"Feminism for the Americas : the making of an international human rights movement"
Statement of Responsibility
Katherine M. Marino
Publisher
  • University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year
  • c2019
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Notes

Summary: "... reveals the story of six dynamic women who drove Pan-American feminism from the 1920s-1940s: Uruguayan Paulina Luisi, Brazilian Bertha Lutz, Chilean Marta Vergara, Cuban Ofelia Dominguez Navarro, Panamanian Clara Gonzalez, and U.S. citizen Doris Stevens. The deep friendships and intense rivalries among these women during an era marked by imperialism, racism, and fascism gave rise to a feminism sensitive to multiple forms of oppression. This advocacy sped changes for women throughout the Americas--suffrage, equal nationality rights, rights to hold public office, equal pay for equal work, and maternity legislation. But just as importantly, these six leaders were forerunners in understanding the complexity of power relations in international affairs, and they used their expertise to not only shape the trajectory of international women's rights but include human rights as defined and established in the United Nations Charter"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 315-339

Includes index

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