Women History Month 2021 | a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Americas digest |
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March 8 2021 | International Women's Day |
Events in March 2021 |
Research |
Selected past events |
Every day is 'Women's Day' at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Americas, but on this day we salute and celebrate the thousands, the millions of women who make history everyday, throughout the world and especially in the Americas, whatever their role is: the political leader, the social activist, the anonymous citizen, the artist, the scientist. Learn more about what we teach and research at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of the Americas via the links in our profile to the various relevant pages of our website: academic staff profiles, teaching modules, news and events.
Images, in order of appearance in the slideshow:
1. Dilma Rousseff, former president of Brazil from 2011 to 2016; first woman to hold the presidency of Brazil [credit: Official photo, Palacio Alvorada]
2. Domitila Barrios (1937-2012), Bolivian labour leader and social activist, her renowned self-biography 'Si me permiten hablar' (May I be allowed to speak?') portrays her journey from oppressed miner's wife to influential union activist [credit:Ìý©Revista MaÃz]
3. Bertha Cáceres (1971-2016), Honduran environmentalist and activist for the rights of indigenous peopleÌý[credit:Ìý©°Â¾±°ì¾±³¦´Ç³¾³¾´Ç²Ô²õ±Õ
4. MarÃa Eva Duarte de Perón, aka Eva Perón orÌý'Evita' (1919-1952), Argentinean politician and social activistÌý[credit:Ìý©²ú±ô´Ç²µ²õ±è´Ç³Ù±Õ
5. Ga'axstal'a, aka Jane Cook (1870 – 1951), was a Canadian First Nations leader and activist of the Kwakwakaʼwakw peopleÌý[credit:Ìý©Royal British Columbia Museum, BC Archives]
6. Malintzin, aka Doñ²¹ Marina or La Malinche, (ca 1500-1529), was an indigenous Nahua woman from what is now Mexico, interpreter for Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes; considered key to his advance into the heart of the Aztec empireÌý[credit:Ìý©Lienzo de Tlaxcala, 16th century]
7. Mari-Jane Seacole (1805-1881), British-Caribbean nurse, considered a pioneer in battle-front health provision for the militaryÌý[credit:Ìý©Albert Charles Challen]
8. Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile, 2006-2010 and 2014-2018, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.Ìý[credit:Ìý©M Bachelet Twitter account]
9. Rigoberta Menchú, indigenous Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1992)Ìý[credit:Ìý©Grupo BCC]
10. Rosa Parks (1913-2005), American Civil Rights movement activist. US Congress called her 'the mother of freedom movement'.Ìý[credit:Ìý©NBC News]
11. Aleida Guevara, Cuban paediatrician, human rights, international health cooperation and debt relief activistÌý[credit:Ìý©°ä³Ü²ú²¹²Ô±ð³Ù±Õ
12. Dame Eugenia Charles (1919-2005), first female lawyer in Dominica, and later on first female Prime Minister of DominicaÌý[credit:Ìý©°ä²¹°ù¾±²ú²ú±ð²¹²Ô±·²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô²¹±ô°Â±ð±ð°ì±ô²â±Õ
13. AugustaÌýChávarri del Castillo aka Yma Sumac (1922-2008), Peruvian singer and film star, famous for her exceptional voice range; met with great success, mostly in HollywoodÌýand Europe [credit:Ìý©Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
14. Grace Jones, Jamaican fashion model, singer, composerÌýand entertainer; one of the first black women to triumph in the world of fashion modelling and designÌý[credit:Ìýartwork album 'Nightclubbing'Ìý©²µ°ù²¹³¦±ðÂá´Ç²Ô±ð²õ.³¦´Ç³¾±Õ
Credit: background image: 'Marie Jeanne Lamartinière' ©ÌýHaiti-born Patricia Brintle, by kind permission
March 3
Book launch: Los Feminismos en América Latina
[Image: link to Youtube video of the event, showing a screenshoot of (from top left, clockwise) Dr Patricio Simonetto, Professor Dora Barranco, Professor Gabriela Cano, Phoebe Martin]
March 10
Fanm Rebèl: Excavating the Histories of Haiti's Women Revolutionaries
[Image: link to Youtube video of the event, showing a screenshoot of guest speaker Dr Nicole Willson]
March 16
El dinero no es todo: Compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX
An event organised by the Institute of Historical Research Latin American History Series
Mercedes Crisóstomo | PhD candidate
Mercedes has already published extensively,Ìýas author, co-author, editor and collaborator, on themes such as agrarian reform, armed conflict, and gender rights, including the book (ed.) Lima: Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018) and the article , co-authored with Alayza, R. (2009)
Professor Paulo Drinot | Professor of Latin American History
In 2020, Professor Drinot published , a landmark study that charts a cyclic process of regulation and abolition in Peru, uncovering the ideas, policies, and actors shaping the debates on prostitution in Lima and beyond. The history of prostitution, Paulo Drinot shows, sheds light on the interplay of gender and sexuality, medicine and public health, and nation-building and state formation in Peru.
Dr Malu Gatto | Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics
Find out more about Dr Gatto's research and teaching.
Mallory Horrill | PhD candidate
Phoebe Martin | PhD candidate
Phoebe has participated in multiple events both within Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê at other prestigious institutions. Her participations include the paper ‘Poner la cuerpa’: The Body as a Site of Reproductive Rights Activism in Peru – at the conference Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America conferencein January 2021, and, in 2020, the co-organisation of the gender-themed workshop ‘Andinxs: Addressing Contemporary Politics and Gender in the Andes’, which brought together scholars from Latin America and Europe to discuss the increasingly contested relationship between politics and gender in the Andean region.
Phoebe is a member of the editorial collective , and is the author of the blog:
Professor Maxine Molyneux | Professor of Sociology
Maxine Molyneux’s current research is on the transformations of welfare systems in Latin America, citizen participation and accountability in social protection in Latin America; and the history and politics of Latin American feminism. Find out more about the vast research undertaken by and the large number of books, articles and chapter she has published over the years on the theme of women's rights and gender justice.
Carolina Páez Vacas | PhD candidate
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November 23 2020
Latin American Countries andÌýWomen's Rights and Needs during the Pandemic
Dr Constanza Tabbush (UN Women), Dr Silke Staab (UN Women), Dr Eleonor Faur (National University of San Martin and Institute of Economic and Social Development, Argentina), Dr Bila Sorj (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Dr Paola Jirón (University of Chile), Dr Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck College, University of London), Professor Maxine Molyneux (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of the Americas)
[Image: link to Youtube video of the event, showing a screenshoot of (from top left, clockwise) Dr Constanza Tabbush, Professor Maxine Molyneux, Professor Nicola Miller, Dr Silke Staab]Ìý
July 16 2020
Sexing the Blue Tide: The Backlash Against Sexual and Gender Justice in Latin America
Dr Constanza Tabbush (UN Women); Professor Maxine Molyneux, Professor Jonathan Bell (both Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of the Americas)
[Image: link to Youtube video of the event, showing a screenshoot of Dr Constanza Tabbush]Ìý
January 22 2020
I don't think I am a Feminist: Eugenia Charles's Gender Politics in Postcolonial DominicaÌý
May 10 2018
Book launch: 'Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada'
Dr Christabelle SethnaÌý(University of Ottawa); Dr Steve HewittÌý(University of Birmingham)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of a blurred, redacted surveillance document, which reveals the words that form the title of the book]
November 2 2017Ìý
Eva Perón and the Women's Vote: Credit Where It's Due?
Dr Jill Hedges (Oxford Analytica)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of the cover of the book 'The Life of Eva Peron' by Dr Jill Hedges]Ìý
March 13 2017
Politics, Gender and Health: Insight from Argentina's Provinces
Professor James McGuireÌý(Wesleyan University)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of a schematic globe map of Central and South America] Ìý
May 12 2016
'Stop Asking the Women to Workshop You': Cultures of Inequality in Higher Education
Dr Say Burgin and Dr Kate Dossett (both Leeds)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of a whimsical image of a woman cycling past a traffic signpost that reads 'Welcome to Fantasyland - twinned with Cloud Nine']
December 9 2015
Decolonizing Development: Kichwa and Tsachila women's engagement with postcolonial development
Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of a an early modern era map showing the southern half of North America, the whole of Central America and the Caribbean islands and the northern half of South America] Ìý
November 4 2015
Gender and Protest at Morant Bay and in Post-Emancipation Caribbean
Professor Gad Heuman (Warwick)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of the cover of the book ''The Killing Time' The Moran Bay Rebellion in Jamaica' by Professor Gad Heuman]
April 15 2015
Freedom of expression, power and the media in Mexico: the case of Carmen Aristegui
Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge) and José Antonio Brambila (independent scholar)
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a photograph of Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, wearing headphones] ÌýÌý
March 9 2015
Violence Against Women in Mexico and Central America
Laura CarlsenÌý(CIP Americas Program),ÌýMarilyn ThomsonÌý() andÌýLorena FuentesÌý()
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing a detail of a an early modern era map showing part of Central America] ÌýÌý
March 6 2014
Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Latin America
[Image: link to the Soundcloud podcast, showing an image of a puzzle with a female gender symbol acting as a key inserted into one of the puzzle pieces]
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