Feminism for the Americas : The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century.The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe.Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism.Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens.This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination.Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for interna