Book description
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin…
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2 authors picked Feminism for the Americas as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When global diplomats formed the League of Nations in 1919, feminists were forced to lobby for women’s rights from outside the halls of power. As a small measure of progress, after World War II six states would appoint women to the 1945 conference charged with drafting a charter to govern the League’s successor: the United Nations. Half of the female delegates were appointed by Latin American nations, and together, the three feministas would lobby tirelessly to ensure that the UN Charter bound the body to promote human rights “without distinction as to race, language, religion, or sex.” Marino’s fabulous book…
From Mona's list on feminism is a century-old global phenomenon.
I am recommending this book as a history of women’s rights that extends out from the United States to the sister republics of Central and South America. Women’s rights has been a genuinely international movement and the author explores the links between veterans of the U.S. suffrage movement and women from Mexico to Chile, working to establish equal rights in their countries. Beginning as protégés of U.S. women, they eventually become independent leaders of their own movements, surpassing the tendency of their mentors to limit themselves to formal legal rather than expansive social and economic rights. The subtitle indicates the…
From Ellen's list on the history of women's rights.
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