La vanguardia feminista : Pan-American feminism and the rise of international women's rights, 1915-1946
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- From 1915 to 1946, a vibrant movement of feminist activists and organizations from throughout the Western Hemisphere not only helped secure women's civil, political, and economic rights in the United States and Latin America but also advanced the creation of international "human rights." Drawing on research from over twenty archives in the United States, Uruguay, Cuba, and Chile, this dissertation is the first sustained, transnational study of Pan-American feminism. It charts the movement through its six most influential activists: Paulina Luisi (Uruguay), Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (Cuba), Clara González (Panama), Doris Stevens (United States), Bertha Lutz (Brazil), and Marta Vergara (Chile). Some well-known, others largely forgotten, these women, all recognized as national feminist leaders in their day, played a pivotal role in the creation of a movement for women's international rights. Their efforts propelled national campaigns for the vote, for equal work and equal pay, and for maternity legislation. They also created the first inter-governmental organization of women in the world, the Inter-American Commission of Women (1928); the first international women's rights treaty in the world, the Equal Rights Treaty (1929); and, later, the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women (1946). These activists were vanguards as well in their agenda for "equal rights, " which reached beyond the narrow focus on equal political and civil rights ascribed by the U.S. National Woman's Party. Rather, Latin American feminists shaped the meaning of Pan-American feminism by pushing a broad "equal rights" agenda that included not only political and civil rights but also social and economic welfare and multi-lateralism. At times, U.S. dominance hindered Latin American leadership in inter-American feminist organizations, but conflicts over these power dynamics resulted in a Pan-American feminism that bore the profound ideological stamp of Latin American regional politics when activists explicitly denounced imperialism and insisted on a more multi-lateral world. Culminating in the 1945 conference in San Francisco that created the United Nations, these Pan-American feminists played crucial roles in constructing the founding principles of international human rights.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Marino, Katherine Marie |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Thesis advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Katherine Marie Marino. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Katherine Marie Marino
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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