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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: Contesting the Pink Tide -- CHAPTER 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay -- CHAPTER 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No -- CHAPTER 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus -- CHAPTER 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy -- CHAPTER 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation -- CHAPTER 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? -- CHAPTER 7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution -- CHAPTER 8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution 2007–17 -- AFTERWORD: Maneuvering the "U-Turn" -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of email, Spanish-speaking feminist activists immediately claimed it to replace the awkward "o/a" used to indicate both genders in written text, discovering embedded in the internet an answer to the challenge of symbolic inclusion. In repurposing the symbol, they changed its meaning. In Interpreting the Internet, Elisabeth Jay Friedman provides the first in-depth exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet to support their counterpublics. Aided by a global network of women and men dedicated to establishing an accessible internet, activists have developed identities, constructed communities, and honed strategies for social change. And by translating the internet into their own vernacular, they have transformed the technology itself. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in feminist and gender studies, Latin American studies, media studies, and political science, as well as anyone curious about the ways in which the internet shapes our lives

AbstractThis article argues that Spain has been the driving external force in the advancement of LGBT rights in Latin America, from marriage in Argentina to the regional recognition of "sexual diversity rights" as human rights. Acting as "norm entrepreneurs," Spanish activists and organizations, relying on development aid, have promoted their perspectives through two approaches: strategic consulting and resource transfer. Their diffusion is illustrated primarily by the Argentine case. There, activists underwritten by Spanish resources have borrowed Spanish strategies to achieve "the same rights with the same names." Besides broadening our understanding of the struggle for LGBT equality in Latin America, this article deepens the explanation of norm diffusion, focusing on emergence. In this stage, specific individuals and organizations deliberately select appropriate "targets" for and moments of intervention. But norm "receptors" must also be ready for action.

This essay plays out the historical development of the concept of 'women's human rights'. The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) specifically included sex as a factor in the nondiscriminatory entitlement to all rights granted by the 1948 Declaration. The year 1979 saw the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). But it wasn't until 1993 that the Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights selected the UN World Conference on Human Rights as the venue to voice their message to the global public. Their petition was signed by 300,000 people in 123 countries. They participated in the Conference mostly as members of nongovernmental organizations. Eventually the World Conference declared that "The human rights of women & of the girl child are an inalienable, integral, & indivisible part of universal human rights." However, the subsequent development of a countermovement against the women's human rights movement has made gender relations one of the most contested issues of UN conferences. J. Stanton