ARGENTINA'S FEMINIST INSURGENCY AND STRUGGLES OVER SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
29. Nov
An online lecture by Liz Mason-Deese Tuesday 29 November, 6:15-7:45pm
Over the past decade, a massive, innovative, and radical feminist movement has emerged in Latin America both in opposition to gender-based violence and in demand of new rights, such as the right to abortion. Questions of social reproduction are central to this feminism that has linked the devaluation of feminized labor to the violence against feminized bodies, connecting economic and financial violence to a myriad of other forms of violence. This talk explores how feminisms in Argentina center issues of social reproduction: both in terms of demands on the state to fund aspects of social reproduction and in practices of self-organization and autonomous forms of social reproduction enacted by movements themselves. From community-run health clinics to soup kitchens and educational programs, these autonomous forms of social reproduction also point to ways of reorganizing the labor of social reproduction, deconfining it from the private household and the family, and making it into a collective responsibility.
Liz Mason-Deese holds a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a long time researcher, translator, and participant in feminist and workers' movements in Argentina. She is the translator of numerous books about feminist movements and thought around the world, including Feminist International by Veronica Gago, A Feminist Reading of Debt by Veronica Gago and Luci Cavallero, and The Feminist Subversion of the Economy by Amaia Perez Orozco. She is also a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective and the translation collective Territorio de Ideas.
This event is organised by Ben Trott and hosted by the Gender and Diversity Research Network.
To register and receive Zoom login information, please email: ben.trott@leuphana.de