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In Women’s Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship, Elizabeth Maier argues that “[o]ne of the most distinctive characteristics of Latin America over the past four decades has been the increasing visibility of women as collective actors in the public domain of politics.” Historically relegated to the private sphere of Latin American society, women’s entrance into the public arena of politics took place primarily under the military-authoritarian governments during the second half of the twentieth century. Among those who became involved in the public arena were “[e]ducated, middle-class feminists, female guerrilla fighters, activist Mothers, and militant urban homemakers from class-oriented, grassroots organizations.” This new female representation of political mobilization accounts for a heterogeneous and complex scope of individual experiences regarding women’s contributions to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s through to the 1990s in Latin America.1
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Morey, T.C., Santos, C. (2014). Las Madres Guerreras. In: Cooper, D., Phelan, C. (eds) Motherhood and War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437945_4
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