5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

This regular session will be devoted to examining the lessons movement activists and scholars from around the world can learn from feminist movements in Latin America. The region is infamous for being one of the most unequal in the world. Yet it is also home to some of the most creative and resilient social and political movements in human history including its very diverse (liberal, indigenous, decolonial, to name a few) feminist movements.

More recently, the Green Tide around reproductive rights initiated in Argentina and the campaigns against the high rates of feminicides in multiple countries have shown the positive impact of framing such issues as human rights and public health problems, of constantly taking to the streets and building intersectional coalitions in a manner similar to the Reproductive Justice and other feminist movements led by women of color in the global North.

At the same time, several feminist movements in the region still face stagnation and even setbacks as it has been the case in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and more recently Argentina while facing the effects of the conservative backlash in the region. The session will attempt to identify factors in common as well as key differences among various research-based cases and discuss their implications for other progressive movements in the region and around the globe.