Horror, gender violence and Latin American heteronormative rhetoric as mechanisms to invoke a queer subjectivity in La memoria del muerto (Valentín Javier Diment, 2011)

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Gustavo E. Subero
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Violence

The Role and Everyday Life Experiences of Latin American Female Researchers in Academia

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The North ◽  
Academic Woman ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Current Context

I wrote this essay a year before the current context of feminist student strike in Chile. A year ago, it was a time in which there was silence and fear. I understood the natural tendency of living with the different ways of gender violence that is normalized and taken for granted. In a society which is dominated by male power, and where we could find shelter in what the North defines as Resistance voices, this text arises from inquiries and contradictions that I, as a academic woman from northern Chile have lived, in socio-critical qualitative inquiry, paradigmatically moving from the analysis of qualitative data assisted by computers, to interpretive [auto]ethnography.

scholarly journals Entre discursos y significados. Apuntes sobre el discurso feminista en América Latina

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Lola G. Luna
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Gender In Development ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Resumen: Se exploran los roles sociales que juega elfeminismo a partir del sufragismo, no sólo comomovimiento social sino como productor de discursos yconocimientos. Se analizan diversos discursos socialesempleados por las feministas en el contextolatinoamericano, desglosando los sentidos de una seriede categorías o conceptos con los que las sujetos en accióny los movimientos de mujeres, así como subjetividadesindividuales, dan significado a sus condiciones socialesy a sus contextos materiales, produciéndose una mediaciónde los discursos en la acción política y social de las sujetos.Palabras clave: discurso, género, género en eldesarrollo, violencia de género, derechos humanossexuales y reproductivos, feminismo.Abstract: Stemming from suffragism, the social rolesplayed by feminism are explored, seeing it as not only asocial movement but as producer of knowledge anddiscourses. Several social discourses used by feminists ina Latin American context are analyzed, taking into accountthe meanings given to a series of categories by women,as subjects of political action movements as well asindividuals, as they resignify their social conditions andmaterial contexts by means of their political and socialaction.Keywords: discourse, gender, gender in development,gender violence, sexual and reproductive rights, humanrights, feminism.

Latin American Production on Gender Violence on Scopus, 2010 -2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 882-888
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Hernandez ◽  
Miguel Saavedra-López ◽  
Xiomara Calle-Ramirez ◽  
Julio Cjuno ◽  
Fernando Escobedo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Violence

scholarly journals LA VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO EN LOS ORDENAMIENTOS JURÍDICOS DE INSPIRACIÓN LATINA: (II) GLOBALIZACIÓN Y DISCRIMINACIÓN CONTRA LA MUJER

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-79
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
America Latina

LA VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO EN LOS ORDENAMIENTOS JURÍDICOS DE INSPIRACIÓN LATINA: (II) GLOBALIZACIÓN Y DISCRIMINACIÓN CONTRA LA MUJER GENDER VIOLENCE IN THE LEGAL SYSTEMS OF CIVIL LAW: (II) GLOBALIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE WOMAN Juana María González Moreno Universidad de Granada, España DOI: https://doi.org/10.33017/RevECIPeru2004.0022/ RESUMEN Este trabajo representa la continuación de nuestro estudio titulado “La violencia de género en los ordenamientos jurídicos de inspiración latina (I) América Latina versus Europa: discriminaciones de ida y vuelta”, presentado en la Quinta Conferencia Europea sobre Investigación Feminista, “Gender and Power in the New Europe” (Lund, Suecia, agosto de 2003), y en el que tratamos de ilustrar, a través del análisis del ordenamiento jurídico peruano, cómo la violencia contra la mujer contenida en los ordenamientos jurídicos latinoamericanos es mayor que la violencia que producen los ordenamientos jurídicos de países europeos. En esta segunda parte, ponemos de manifiesto cómo la globalización ha supuesto un reforzamiento de la violencia de género contenida en los distintos ordenamientos jurídicos. Palabras clave: Discriminación, derecho, género, globalización, Latinoamérica, violencia, mujeres. ABSTRACT These work represents the continuation of our titled study "The gender violence in the legal systems of Civil Law (I) Latin America versus Europe: discriminations of coming and going", presented in the Fifth European Conference on Feminist Investigation, "Gender and Power in New the Europe" (Lund, Sweden, August of 2003), and in which we try to illustrate, through the analysis of the Peruvian legal system, how the violence against the woman contained in the Latin American legal systems is bigger than the violence that the legal systems of European countries produces. In this second part, we show how the globalization has supposed a reinforcement of the contained in the different legal systems gender violence. Keywords: Discrimination, law, gender, globalization, Latinmerican, violence, women.

scholarly journals Transnational Governance, Local Politics, and Gender Violence Law in Nicaragua

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
Gender Based

Many Latin American countries have passed laws intended to address femicide and other forms of violence against women. Yet the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent at best. This article analyzes the case of Nicaragua, which passed a comprehensive law on gender-based violence (Law 779) in 2012. While celebrated by local women’s organizations, Law 779 was subsequently weakened through a series of legislative reforms and executive decrees. This article seeks to explain why state actors in Nicaragua initially supported Law 779 and later sought to undermine it. I argue that in contexts characterized by a high concentration of political power like Nicaragua, transnational governance structures are insufficient to ensure the success of gender violence legislation. Through an analysis of Law 779, this article contributes to broader debates about the nature of state legitimacy and the potential of legal advocacy to address violence against women.

scholarly journals The “Formally Feminist State”: A Potential New Player in the Inter-American Human Rights System?

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 365-369
Author(s):  
Paulina García-Del Moral
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Cotton Field ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Next Of Kin ◽  
Border City ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Women's Human Rights

A decade ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the case of González and Others (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico, which addressed the abduction and subsequent sexual murder of three young women in the industrial border city of Ciudad Juárez—a place known for systematic gender violence and impunity. For the victims’ next of kin and the feminist and human rights activists involved in the litigation, the murders constituted feminicidios (feminicides). The resulting judgment has been celebrated not only for developing new standards for women's human rights internationally, but also for its domestic impact in the form of innovative feminist laws and policies in Mexico and other Latin American countries. With a focus on Cotton Field’s impact on Mexico, this essay explores the potential rise of the “formally feminist state”—a state that adopts domestic feminist legislation and policies but then resists their implementation—as a new player on the stage of the inter-American human rights system (IAS). Drawing on insights from American sociolegal analyses on judicial deference to the presence of policies and institutional mechanisms as indicators of compliance with antidiscrimination laws, I suggest that this new player may create a different set of challenges for courts in assessing states’ lack of compliance with norms on women's human rights.

The Sociology of Gender in Latin America: from Social Mothers to Sexual Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gioconda Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Family Work ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
And Gender

In Latin America, gender inequalities as a field emerged in the 1970s, when scholars began to look at women’s experiences in a wide array of areas then being studied by Latin American sociology, including urbanization, migration into cities, transformation of agrarian structures, and social movements. Since then, the field of sociology of gender has grown steadily across the continent. The first section of this chapter discusses three approaches to gendered analysis in Latin America: women’s subordination, unequal power relationships between women and men in various spaces, and gender as a performative practice. It then charts the evolution of two significant subfields in Latin American sociology: gender, work, and social reproduction; and gender, collective action, and the state. It discusses trajectories and debates arising within these subfields, underlining the contributions gender analysis has made toward broadening the definition and scope of crucial social institutions in sociological analysis: the family, work, and the state. Finally, it introduces three specialists’ sections that contribute to an understanding of the changing dynamics in Latin American societies: the study of gender violence across the continent; the particular focus on care in the study of social reproduction and public policies; and the evolution of the labor market with respect to gender.

scholarly journals Women’s bodies as dominated territories: Intersectionality and performance in contemporary art from Mexico, Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 677-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Quiñones-Otal
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Hispanic Caribbean ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Since the 1970s, artists from Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean have explored the connection between imperialism and gender violence through innovative artistic proposals. Their research has led them to use the female body as a metaphor for both the invaded geographical territory and the patriarchal incursion into women’s lives. This trend has received little to no attention and it behooves us to understand why it has happened and, more importantly, how the artists are proposing we examine this double violence endured by the women who live or used to live in countries with a colonial present or past. The resulting images are powerful, interesting, and a great contribution to Latin America’s artistic heritage. This study proposes that research yet to be done in other Global areas where colonies has been established, since it is possible that this trend can be understood, not only as an element of the Latin American artistic canon, but also integral to all of non-Western art.

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