462.2 An analysis concerning the effectiveness of creating spaces of transnational dialogue, between feminists/Latin-American movements in human rights actions

Friday, August 3, 2012: 9:20 AM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Vanessa ZANELLA , Brazil
The Latin-American feminism consolidates, in their distinct cultural and historical contexts, in the common struggle against the dictatorial and militarized regimes. Nevertheless, other targets of the Brazilian feminist struggle in particular, but also from Latin America as a whole, are components of a backbone structure called patriarchy in its inseparable intersection with capitalism and racism), reveal the political, transversal, transnational and horizontal movement shape: male hegemony, sexual violence and the right to pursue pleasure. These characteristics distinguish the contemporary Latin American feminism from those with European / Western / monolithic origin, because its carries historical, colonial and socio-economic underdevelopment  stigmas,  poignant to the regional struggle for human rights. Thus, this work focuses on analyzing the practical results of the important creation of spaces for intercultural and “intermovements” dialogues as a strategy of transversality of the feminist movement in Latin America in search of guaranteed human rights of women as diverse, but that shares everyday oppressions arising marginalized categories of class, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, culture and generation. These spaces of dialogue (as the Latin American and the Caribbean Feminist Meeting, the Meeting of Rural Women in Latin America, the Latin American Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights and Citizenship, among others ) are fundamental, not only for the construction of a solid agenda for common actions aimed at ensuring the human rights of Latin American and that this work will gain attention through examination of the effectiveness of such actions and their results, but also to the confluence of ideas from the joints of the global south, through the meeting of feminism and social movements that transcend the national and the binary view of theories of the global north (and its academic disservice in contending to be universal) and its representations, exporting an ahistorical, conservative and distorted Latin America, without due reflection of local realities.