Title: The Sociology of Gender in Latin America From Social Mothers to Sexual Rights
Abstract: Abstract In Latin America, gender inequalities as a field emerged in the 1970s, when scholars began to look at women’s experiences in a wide array of areas then being studied by Latin American sociology, including urbanization, migration into cities, transformation of agrarian structures, and social movements. Since then, the field of sociology of gender has grown steadily across the continent. The first section of this chapter discusses three approaches to gendered analysis in Latin America: women’s subordination, unequal power relationships between women and men in various spaces, and gender as a performative practice. It then charts the evolution of two significant subfields in Latin American sociology: gender, work, and social reproduction; and gender, collective action, and the state. It discusses trajectories and debates arising within these subfields, underlining the contributions gender analysis has made toward broadening the definition and scope of crucial social institutions in sociological analysis: the family, work, and the state. Finally, it introduces three specialists’ sections that contribute to an understanding of the changing dynamics in Latin American societies: the study of gender violence across the continent; the particular focus on care in the study of social reproduction and public policies; and the evolution of the labor market with respect to gender.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-07-09
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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