Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide

Abstract

Introduction: contesting the pink tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush -- Explaining advances and drawbacks in women's and LGBTIQ rights in Uruguay: multisited pressures, political resistance, and structural inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol -- LGBT rights yes, abortion no: explaining uneven trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller -- Working within a gendered political consensus: uneven progress on gender and sexuality rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas -- Gender and sexuality in Brazilian public policy: progress and regression in depatriarchalizing and deheteronormalizing the state / Marlise Matos -- De jure transformation, de facto stagnation: the status of women's and LGBT rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax -- Toward feminist socialism? Gender, sexuality, popular power, and the state in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution / Rachel Elfenbein -- Nicaragua and Ortega's "second" revolution: "restituting the rights" of women and sexual diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas -- Ecuador's citizen revolution 2007-17: a lost decade for women's rights and gender equality / Annie Wilkinson -- Afterword: Maneuvering the "U-turn": comparative lessons from the pink tide and forward-looking strategies for feminist and queer activisms in the Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez.