2003/09/01 by Marcela Ríos Tobar · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America #Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
paper · doi:10.1353/jowh.2003.0085
openalex publication_date 2003/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Latin American women have used a variety of political strategies to en-gage and contest conventional social hierarchies and struggle against gender oppression. These different forms of resistance have gained visibility and become widespread political mobilizations in the face of severe economic crisis and generalized social and political transformations. Two such periods stand out as the most important phases of activism for the history of women's rights in the region: the suffragist mobilization between the 1930s and 1950s, and the struggles for democratization of the 1970s and 1980s (or first and second wave feminism, as many scholars referred to them). 2