Between Faith and Stigma: Anti-Gender Movements in Latin America.

The Latin American feminist movement has been consolidated since the 1970s, generating important changes in the region, the expansion of civil, social and political rights, greater participation of women in spheres of power, laws to prevent and eradicate violence against women. , sexual and reproductive rights; However, these advances have not led to the dismantling of movements that seek to reverse these rights. Feminist struggles have had a counteroffensive by conservative movements in the region from three spheres: the ecclesial, the economic and the military, showing a great capacity to reverse or stop these advances that women have been fighting for decades.

The research question of this paper is how is the transnational dimension in which these movements appear in Latin America constituted? The objective is analyze the transnational dimension that allows the consolidation of anti-gender movements in the region and that leads to a process of democratic erosion. It is necessary to understand, on the one hand, the relationship of the state in its interweaving between secular and religious power structures and the fragility of democracies in the region where excess authoritarianism in the social and institutional spheres has been present in history. of our nations.