Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America [electronic resource] : Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia /
Rousseau, Stéphanie.author.
Morales Hudon, Anahi.author.
This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s 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 women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Indigenous women’s movements: An intersectional approach to studying social movements  -- 2. Indigenous movements merge into party and state politics  -- 3.Indigenous women transform the politics of representing women  -- 4. Indigenous self-determination: from national dialogues to local autonomies  -- 5. Indigenous women’s struggle for autonomy  -- 6. The “exceptional case” no longer so exceptional  -- 7. Indigenous women strengthen the indigenous movement  -- 8. Conclusion.
This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s 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 women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.
Latin America—Politics and government.
Comparative politics.
Regionalism.
Sociology.
Ethnicity.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Latin American Politics.
Comparative Politics.
Regionalism.
Gender Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.