Week 10: Gender, Sexuality and Rights
Gender, Sexuality and Rights
Questions for Discussion:
What were the issues involved in legislating on and campaigning on gender rights in Latin American states? How have activists engaged with national and international legislation? How important have conceptions of citizenship been for advocacy and/ or legislation relating to gender and/ or sexuality? What has been the relationship between social norms and legislation?
Primary Sources:
Core Reading:
Paulina Garc铆a-Del Moral. "Transforming Feminicidio: Framing, Institutionalization and Social Change" Current Sociology, 64:7, 2016, 1017-1035.
(2018) ", Journal of Human Rights, 17:4, 453-469
Penny Miles, "" Bulletin of Latin American Research (2015) 34:4, 435-450.
Writing for a public audience:
Choose one of the articles about contemporary human rights issues in Brazil suggested in the reading list below for the Brazilian activist, Marielle Franco. Who do you think the intended audience might be? What strategies has the writer used to attract and keep the attention of the reader? What does the reader stand to learn from the article? Would they need any background knowledge to understand the article?
Further Reading:
Clara Ara煤jo, Anna Calasanti, and Mala Htun, 鈥淲omen, Power, and Policy in Brazil,鈥� in Leslie Schwindt Bayer, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Silvia Marina Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857. Berkley: University of California Press, 1985.
Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendon莽a, Benedita da Silva: an Afro-Brazilian woman鈥檚 story of politics and love. 1997.
Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds.) Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2000.
Cristian Berco. 鈥淪ilencing the Unmentionable: Non-Reproductive Sex and the Creation of a Civilized Argentina, 1860-1900.鈥� The Americas, vol. 58, no. 3, 2002, p. 419.
Javier Corrales, and Mario Pecheny (eds.) University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
D铆ez, Jordi. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, eds. Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Am茅ricas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Elisabeth Jay Friedman. (2012) "Constructing 鈥渢he same rights with the same names鈥�: The impact of Spanish norm diffusion on marriage equality in Argentina." Latin American Politics and Society, (2013) 54:4, 29–59.
Garc铆a-Del Moral, Paulina. "Transforming Feminicidio: Framing, Institutionalization and Social Change" Current Sociology, vol. 64, no. 7, Nov. 2016, p. 1017.
(2018) ", Journal of Human Rights, 17:4, 453-469
Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon, : State Action on Women鈥檚 Rights around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Mala Htun, 鈥�,鈥� in Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor-Robinson, eds. Representation: The Case of Women (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Mala Htun, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Margaret E. Keck, and Kathryn Sikkink. Cornell University Press, 1998. (Chapter 5)
Cecilia McCallum, "Women Out of Place? A Micro-Historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil." Journal of Latin American Studies, 39:1 (2007): 55-80.
Kathryn M. Marino. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of and International Human Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2019.
Penny Miles, "Brokering Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Chilean Lawyers and Public Interest Litigation Strategies." Bulletin of Latin American Research (2015) 34:4, 435-450.
Penny Miles, "Challenging Heteronormativity: Atala Riffo and Daughters v. Chile." In S. Smart, K. Fernandez, & C. Pe帽a (Eds.), Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007.
Maxine Molyneux. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Maxine Molyneux, and Shahra Razavi (ed.), . Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2003.
Shawn Schulenberg. "The construction and enactment of same-sex marriage in Argentina." Journal of Human Rights, (2012)11:1, 106–125.
Jocelyn Olcott. 鈥淐old War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women鈥檚 Year Conference Gender & History.鈥� Gender & History, vol. 22, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 733–754.
Steve J. Stern. The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men and Power in Late Colonial Mexico. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Carl F. Stychin. "Same-sex sexualities and the globalization of human rights discourse." McGill Law Journal, (2004) 49:4, 951–968.
Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence and Women鈥檚 Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Diana Taylor Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina鈥檚 Dirty War. Duke, 1997.
Some films and podcasts:
Nina Lakhani talks about her book about the murder of an environmentalist.
Dir. Argentina, 2007.
Dir. Hector Babenco. Brazil, 1985. (See also Manuel Puig's 1976 novel of the same name on which the film is based. We have some copies in the library.)