Latin American Women's Movement Analysis

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I would define the womens movement in Latin America as a progressive campaigning movement for women's liberation and rights which focused on women in Latin American countries. In light of the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the ideology that men are superior to women. One main concept at the beginning of our course reader was that of a "culture of fear" which caused the women of Argentina to create Las Madres, the mothers of the disappeared victims. It was respectable women who excepted their role as wives and mothers who were stepping up to the plate and taking political action saying right is right and wrong is wrong. As well as, believing that the woman's primary role was to nurture the family, and if that family is threaten that it left little room for no redemption. …show more content…
Comparatively, the movement in America was mostly focused on the treatment and uneqaulity of women versus men which had little to nothing to do with any threat to the family as a whole. Whereas women in Latin America had that "culture of fear" that threaten the family as a whole. In particular their murdered children, kidnapped grandchildren or imprisoned husbands. This was a defferent level of warfare for them. Important to realize that the similarity for both women's movements, and other's around the wrold is for gaining some type of progression towards equality and fairness of Life its self. Ultimately, the drive that moved them was a sort of potency that carries on even