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Volume 48 Issue 4, July 2021

Volume 48 Issue 4, July 2021

Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures Part 1

  • Guest Editor: Janet M. Conway
  • Guest Editor: Nathalie Lebon

Introduction

Open AccessIntroductionFirst published June 17, 2021pp. 3–24

Articles

  • Janet M. Conway
Abstract
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 ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 28, 2021pp. 25–48
  • Nathalie Lebon
Abstract
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
  • Carolina Arango-Vargas
Abstract
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
  • Anne-Marie Veillette
Abstract
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
  • Julia Margaret Zulver
Abstract
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
  • Sara C. Motta
Abstract
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