Indigenous Women's Movements in Latin America: Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia: 2017 (Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South)

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous womenÆs movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authorsÆ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous womenÆs discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of womenÆs organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call ôgender parallelismö. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movementsÆ organizations and collective identities.

• | Author: St?phanie Rousseau, Anahi Morales Hudon
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 235 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1349950629
• | ISBN-13: 9781349950621