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The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence , Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of b

In this work, the author focuses on the difficulties and contradictions faced by human rights when faced with movements that demand the presence of religion in the public sphere. He proposes an alliance between the different theologies of liberation existing in different religions and counter-hegemonic conceptions of human rights