Book Launch: Los feminismos en América Latina

In an extraordinary effort of synthesis, Dora Barrancos reviews proposals and actions that were undertaken by a variety of women's collectives: from the formulation of the first feminisms to the unprecedented experience of our times. During this virtual event, Dora Barrancos (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Gabriela Cano (El Colegio de Mexico) will discuss with Patricio Simonetto (UCL Institute of the Americas) the history of Latin-American feminist movements, as well as, their role in the current political scenario. Speakers: Dora Barrancos holds the posts of full professor at Buenos Aires University, Principal researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina), and advisor to Argentina's president Alberto Fernandez. She is author of several books on gender history such as Mujeres en la sociedad argentina. Una historia de cinco siglos (2007) and Moralidades y comportamientos sexuales: Argentina, 1880-2011 (2014). Gabriela Cano is a professor at El Colegio de México. She specialises on gender and sexuality in Mexican history. Her current research focuses on feminism and transmasculine identities in the twentieth century. She is co-editor of Gender, power and politics in Modern Mexico (Duke University Press) and Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi (2010).