Women's Activism In Latin American Chapter Summary

Women’s Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a collaboration of authors with diverse scholarly backgrounds who analyze and present the narrative, vitality and success of women’s experiences, groups and agency in the Americas over the past four decades. The book can be broken apart into five different groups, family structure and globalization, women’s agency and experiences, advocating for social justice and gender’s shaping public policy, and female agency in politics from local to international scale. The five different groups all pose very similar but different questions on a case by case basis. One of the main questions along with the thesis is how have women’s lives changed over the past four decades? Every author does a sturdy job presenting a timeline of how they lived what they faced, what they did, and how it affected the world outwardly for the future from a social family structure to political policies. The main question the book as is how has the visibility of …show more content…
In the middle they began to organize meeting with the UN and gained support that they had to be listened to and awake the consciousness and they learned about their agency of what they could and couldn’t do. They fought for their rights to not be discriminated against and still their daughters of those movements still fight today; having found 100’s of missing persons and returning them home. The value is a lesson in power to the reader’s male and female to show people that no matter what the situation not to count someone out due to their sex. This book is valuable to female audience saying that you too can start a movement that can be heard around the world this was a grass roots movement started by a few women who were powerless and ended up on equal field speaking to the