Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church, and the Family Planning Debacle in Peru

Ewig, Christina

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“…In addition to feminist NGOs, the 1990s witnessed the flourishing of "state feminism": women's policy machineries inside the state, including women's caucuses in legislative and executive offices (McBride and Mazur 2010). Time and again, across national contexts, the "jaw" strategy of combining feminist efforts within government with an autonomous base outside it has proved the most effective (Lycklama à Nijeholt, Sweibel, and Vargas 1998;Woodward 2004;Ewig 2006). Shirin Rai (2008, 74) describes this position as being "in and against the state.…”

Section: Strategic Decisions: Inside Out or Outside In?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Neoeugenic concerns seem to be the most recent iteration. In the 1990s, the Fujimori government of Peru "hijacked" global feminist discourse of reproductive rights for Malthusian ends (Ewig 2006). In the 2000s the EU paid attention to bringing men into childcare and women into paid employment as part of a welfare state agenda defined not as women's emancipation but as "human capital development" (Jenson 2008).…”

Section: Dangers Of Co-optation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Feminist Organizing: What’s Old, What’s New? History, Trends, and Issues

Ewig

Ferree

2013

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

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Feminist organizing is a moving target. Not only are feminists individually on the move, in and out of institutions, offices, and political engagements, but also their collective mobilizations change in character over time. By feminist organizing we mean efforts led by women explicitly challenging women's subordination to men. This differs from two broader terms: women's movements (movements composed of women seeking social change but not necessarily addressing women's subordination); and feminism (concern with women's empowerment, not necessarily collectively organized) (Ferree and Mueller 2004, 577; McBride and Mazur 2010). 1 We do not locate feminist organizing only within women's movements but rather seek to understand shifts in where organizing occurs, the factors behind these shifts, and their consequences for feminist objectives. We begin by sketching the contours of feminist organizing from the nineteenth century to the present. Borrowing an image from historian Leila Rupp, we see global feminist organizing less like waves and more akin to "choppy seas," with feminist organizing cresting and falling in different parts of the

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Section: Strategic Decisions: Inside Out or Outside In?mentioning

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Feminist Organizing: What’s Old, What’s New? History, Trends, and Issues

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Ferree

2013

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

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“…This identified a number of problems, including inconsistent freedom of choice, a lack of follow‐up treatment after surgical intervention, a compulsive tendency in the application of the policy, and the use of quotas to determine how many women should use particular methods of contraception (including surgical sterilisation) (Defensoría del Pueblo :4). Human rights and women's organisations also began to systematically gather evidence of human rights violations related to voluntary surgical contraception (CLADEM ; CRLP‐CLADEM ; Ewig ), and national newspapers reported cases of women who died as a direct result of (usually unconsented) surgical sterilisation through late 1997 and 1998 (Boesten :82; Defensoría del Pueblo :10–11).…”

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Unconsented Sterilisation, Participatory Story‐Telling, and Digital Counter‐Memory in Peru

Brown

Tucker

2017

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This article aims to prompt reflection on the ways in which digital research methods can support or undermine participatory research. Building on our experiences of working on the Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), an interactive, multimedia documentary on unconsented sterilisation in Peru, it explores the ways in which digital technologies can enable participatory knowledge production across geographic, social and linguistic divides. It also considers the new forms of engagement between knowledgeproducers and audiences that digital methods can encourage. Digital technologies can, we contend, help build new spaces for, and modes of engagement with, participatory research, even in contexts such as the Peruvian Andes where digital technologies are not well established or commonly used. Doing so, we argue, entails responding sensitively to the social, linguistic and digital inequalities that shape specific research contexts, and centring the human relationships that are easily sacrificed at the altar of technological innovation. Resumen: Este artículo tiene por propósito impulsar la reflexión sobre como los métodos de investigación digitales pueden apoyar o menoscabar la investigación participativa. Construyendo desde nuestra experiencia de trabajo en el Proyecto Quipu (proyectoquipu.com), el artículo explora como las tecnologías digitales pueden facilitar la producción participativa de conocimiento a través de las divisiones geográficas, sociales y lingüísticas. También considera las nuevas formas de compromiso que los métodos digitales pueden promover entre los productores de conocimiento y los públicos. Insistimos en que las tecnologías digitales pueden abrir nuevos espacios para, y nuevos modos de compromiso con, la investigación participativa, incluso en contextos como los andes peruanos donde las tecnologías digitales no están bien establecidas ni son muy usadas. Argumentamos que hacer esto implica responder con sensibilidad a las inequidades sociales, lingüísticas y digitales que moldean los contextos de investigación específicos. También supone enfatizar en las relaciones humanas que se sacrifican fácilmente en el altar de la innovación tecnológica.

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“…On the other hand, the literature has also proposed an extended diagnosis of the cultural barrier against legal attempt to shift gender roles in Latin America (Ewig, 2006;Molyneux, 1985). As a matter of a fact, gender based policies always elicit strong opposition from supporters of cultural patterns that are frequently at odds with gender based programs and feminist perspectives.…”

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Overcoming Gender Disadvantages: Social Policy Analysis of Urban Middle-Class Women in Colombia

Buchely

2012

SSRN Journal

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The World Bank Report 2012 starts with this statement: "Gender equality matters in itself and it matters for development because, in today's globalized worlds, countries that use the skills and talents of their women would have an advantage over those which do not use it." With the frame that suggest that gender equality matters, this paper describes some policy alternatives oriented to overcome gender disadvantages in the formal labor market incorporation of the urban middle class women in Colombia. On balance, the final recommendation suggest that it is desirable to adopt policy alternatives as Community Centers, which are programs oriented to a social redistribution of the domestic work as a way to encourage women participation in the formal labor market with the social support of the members of their own community. The problem that the social policy needs to address is the segregation of women in the formal labor market in Colombia. Although the evidence shows that the women overcome the educational gap by showing better performance in education that their male peers, women are still segregated of the labor market. The persistence of high rates of unemployment on the female population, the prevalence of the informal labor market as a women labor market, and the presence of the payment difference between men and women with similar professional trainings are circumstances that sustain the segregation statement. These circumstances are inefficient for the society because an economic analysis shows that the cost of maintain the statu quo is externalized in the social security system that includes health, pension and maternity leave regimens. Therefore, the women segregation involves a market failure. This paper evaluates five policy alternatives each directed to the progress of a different causal dimension of the problem: (i) Quotas in the private market, (ii) Flexible working hours, (iii) replace the maternity leave with a family leave, (iv) Increase the Community Centers for redistributing the care work, and (v) Equal payment enforcement. The first alternative looks to increase women's participation in the formal labor market. The second, third, and fourth † Lawyer, political scientist, LLM and SJD at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; LLM from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church, and the Family Planning Debacle in Peru

Cited by 43 publications

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Feminist Organizing: What’s Old, What’s New? History, Trends, and Issues

Feminist Organizing: What’s Old, What’s New? History, Trends, and Issues

Unconsented Sterilisation, Participatory Story‐Telling, and Digital Counter‐Memory in Peru

Overcoming Gender Disadvantages: Social Policy Analysis of Urban Middle-Class Women in Colombia

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