Entre o estado patriarcal e o feminismo estatal: o caso dos mecanismos institucionais de mulheres na América Latina

Abstract

The present work focuses on the tense and contested relationship between feminism and the state and seeks to understand the role of institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women (IMAWs) in Latin America. Since a feminist approach, the study aims to understand the role and influence of IMAWs in the insertion of the feminist agenda within the state, the construction of gender equality policies and the representation of womens and feminist and womens movements perspective. Contextual and political factors will be examined, which may or may not influence the political role of these mechanisms, it will be analyzed the characteristics that differentiate the types of mechanisms in the region and also the designs and content of national gender equality plans. It will be possible to realize that IMAWs emerge in very different contexts, becoming stronger especially since the nineties, but still have a variety of institutional forms. They have extensive dialogue with women's movements and operate in various social and political contexts, marked by political and social changes in the region, with the rise of new progressive governments, with the adoption of new social agendas and also from new contours that organize feminists performance, synthesized by the idea of a fourth feminist wave underway in Latin America.