The Women's Movement in Argentina

RODRÍGUEZ GUSTÁ, ANA LAURA

Twenty-First-Century Feminismos Women's Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

McGill-Queen's University Press

Lugar: Québec; Año: 2021; p. 180 - 201

Argentina has a strong women´s movement. In recent years, it reached a massive street presence, incorporated young women, and spread across social classes. The movement became a significant political actor that reshaped the public debate on women's rights and, more broadly, democracy itself. Its most emblematic recent achievement is the approval of legal abortion in December 2020. For this reason, social observers affirm that Argentina witnesses a feminist revolution transforming the political and cultural order in unprecedented ways. In the rest of the chapter, I will use the term women's movement under the assumption that, for the most part, it advances feminist claims, and that no binary distinctions can be draw between women's movements and feminist movements (Oria & Caride, 2003).