Neopopulism and Women’s Citizenship in Latin America

Abstract

The study of Peruvian women’s movements’ interaction with a neo-populist state needs to be contextualized in relation to what we already know about populism and women’s participation in democratization processes in Latin America. In this chapter, I will first review existing accounts of populist and neopopulist political dynamics to define these key terms. I will then proceed to discuss how the gendered dimensions of (neo)populism have been described in a limited number of academic works, and finally connect these issues with the broadest questions of women’s relationship with existing democracies in contemporary Latin America. In these different sections, I will highlight the specificities of the Peruvian case.