Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Abstract
This article examines the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros as critical transnational sites for the collective re-imagining of feminist politics in the region. Paying special attention to the most recent regional gathering, held in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic in 1999, we analyze the major political and philosophical debates that have emerged during twenty years of Encuentros: 1) shifting conceptions of movement "autonomy" and feminisms' relationship to the larger women's movement and to other actors in civil and political society, the State, and international institutions; 2) controversies generated by the movements' recurrent "crises of inclusion" and "crises of expansion"; and 3) debates centered on differences, inequalities, and power imbalances among women, in general, and among feminists, in particular. While this essay explores how the Encuentros have marked feminist debates in the region, it also argues that they are, in themselves, productive transborder sites that not only reflect but also (re)shape Latin American and Caribbean feminist discourses and practices.
DOI
10.1086/342589
Recommended Citation
Sonia E. Alvarez, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Ericka Beckman, Maylei Blackwell, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, Nathalie Lebon, Marysa Navarro, and Marcela Ríos Tobar. Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms. Signs, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 537-579
Comments
This is a pre-print version of an article published by University of Chicago Press, which is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/342589.
The article was also published in Portuguese by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2003000200013.
Citation for Portuguese language version: ALVAREZ, Sonia E et al. Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2003, vol.11, n.2, pp. 541-575. ISSN 1805-9584. DOI: 10.1590/S0104-026X2003000200013