Title Feminism for the Americas : the making of an international human rights movement / Katherine M. Marino

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. Contents Prologue : Feminismo americano -- A new force in the history of the world -- The anti-imperialist origins of international women's rights -- Feminismo práctico -- The great feminist battle of Montevideo -- The birth of popular front Pan-American feminism -- United fronts for women's rights and for human rights -- Mobilizing women's rights as human rights -- The Latin American contribution to the constitution of the world -- Epilogue : history and human rights Summary This book 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 This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines. Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-339) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2019) Subject Luisi, Paulina. Lutz, Bertha, 1894-1976. Vergara, Marta. Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia, 1894-1976. González, Clara, 1900-1990. Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963. Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963 González, Clara, 1900-1990 Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia, 1894-1976 Vergara, Marta Lutz, Bertha, 1894-1976 Luisi, Paulina González, Clara, 1900-1990 Luisi, Paulina Lutz, Bertha, 1894-1976 Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963 Feminism -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminism -- Social aspects -- Latin America Feminism -- Social aspects -- United States Women's rights -- Latin America Women's rights -- United States. Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Anti-imperialist movements Feminism Feminism -- Social aspects Women's rights Latin America United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018031111 ISBN 9781469649702 1469649705 9781469649719 1469649713

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