Latin American Gender Studies in the Twenty-First Century

For Castellanos, and for many other activists of her/my generation, that struggle was punctuated by still-potent names like Tlatelolco, the Sorbonne, and Kent State.2 It was the generation of authoritarian regimes in the southern cone of Latin America, of the tremendous upswelling of women-headed social movements: las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, the Colectivo de la Media Luna in El Salvador, the Flora Tristan Institute in Peru. Hers was the struggle to put women’s rights on national and international agendas: to raise consciousness about issues relative to wage work, domestic labour, motherhood, the body,