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Print version ISSN 2011-0324
Abstract
IBARRA MELO, MARÍA EUGENIA. Contributions of Latin American female academics to understand the collective actions of women. CS [online]. 2015, n.15, pp.174-201. ISSN 2011-0324. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i15.1966.
This article presents a review of academic work on the political participation of women in collective action promoted by social organizations, networks, and the movement of women and feminist in Latin America and Colombia, published in the period from 1990 to 2014. This approach gives priority to the analysis of the content of the texts, it focuses on the way as their authors build objects of research, and on the theoretical references and contributions to the knowledge of the relationship gender and collective action. The different national and regional experiences reported by these studies provide a wealth of descriptive and analytical material. However, based on these findings, the article concludes that it is necessary to enlarge the interpretations about the importance that gender changes have in political culture.
Keywords : Collective action; mobilizations; political participation; women; gender.