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Feminism for the Americas

The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

by Katherine M. Marino
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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 Domíngez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara González; 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.

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    Gender and American Culture

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  • Release date

    March 4, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781469649719

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      Starred review from February 1, 2019

      Marino (history, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) tells the stories of six feminist activists from Latin America and the Caribbean whose contributions to the women's right's movement have been previously underexplored. With her insightful, well-researched work on Brazilian politician Bertha Lutz, Cuban writer Ofelia Domingez Navarro, Chilean author Marta Vergara, and American writer Doris Stevens, Marino provides a much-needed compendium to the narrative of feminism's history, addressing the ways in which personalities played a role in shaping the women's movement. She rightly argues that it's trickier to remember the work of individuals whose primary contributions happened through action rather than in printed books or theoretical work--an issue that has led to a privileging of white American and British feminist voices. VERDICT Marino's book would make a welcome addition to courses on feminist theory and women's roles in the Americas, and it should encourage scholars to dig deeper into the lives and works of feminists who were on the frontlines without necessarily publishing books or articles about feminism.--Emily Bowles, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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