Seeking Rights from the Left
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Seeking Rights from the Left

Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide

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Seeking Rights from the Left

Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide

About this book

Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the "Pink Tide" in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality.

Contributors: Sonia E. Alvarez, MarĂ­a Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura RodrĂ­guez GustĂĄ, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas, Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide
  6. 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women’s and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural Inertias
  7. 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003–15)
  8. 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender and Sexuality Rights in Chile
  9. 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State
  10. 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women’s and LGBT Rights in Bolivia
  11. 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the State in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
  12. 7. Nicaragua and Ortega’s “Second” Revolution: “Restituting the Rights” of Women and Sexual Diversity?
  13. 8. Ecuador’s Citizen Revolution 2007–17: A Lost Decade for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
  14. Afterword. Maneuvering the “U-Turn”: Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the Americas
  15. Contributors
  16. Index