TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marino,Katherine M.
TI  - Feminism for the Americas: the making of an international human rights movement 
T2  - Gender and American culture
SN  - 9781469649702
AV  - HQ1460 .F465 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Luisi, Paulina.
KW  - Lutz, Bertha,
KW  - Vergara, Marta.
KW  - Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia,
KW  - González, Clara,
KW  - Stevens, Doris,
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "... 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"--
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