An analysis of popular feminism as a category in Latin American feminist studies from
its origins in the 1980s and its disappearance in the 1990s to its resurgence in the
present through the protagonism of the World March of Women, asks what is at stake
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Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 28, 2021pp. 25–48
Although 1980s popular feminisms were crucially concerned with the (gendered) class
interests of women from the popular sectors, the concerns of racialized women were
generally obscured. In the context of the new millennium, contemporary forms of self-...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 17, 2021pp. 49–68
Organized popular women in Medellín, Colombia, have exerted lasting influence on the
city’s women’s movement by centering a gender-class approach to women’s issues and
thus contributing to long-standing forms of popular feminism in Latin America. The
work ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published May 14, 2021pp. 69–86
The action of the women of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to avoid, prevent, counter, and
denounce police violence, both infrapolitically and in the public transcript, are
associated with the rise of a political consciousness that is gendered and racialized
in ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published June 17, 2021pp. 87–104
The Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz (Association of Afro Women for Peace—AFROMUPAZ)
is an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogotá. The organization
represents a differential brand of feminism in the face of historical and ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published July 2, 2021pp. 105–123
An initial mapping of the decolonial feminisms emergent in Buenaventura and Cali,
Southwest Colombia, in the Afro-Colombian and indigenous political Escuela de Mariposas
de Alas Nuevas and Círculo de Hombres, Cali, shows that they move within and beyond
a ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published July 2, 2021pp. 124–142