ABSTRACT
Latin American feminist movements or feminisms have grown steadily and undergone profound transformations, emerging today at the very center of international feminist debates. This chapter draws on our own experiences as Latin Americanists and feminists who have done research on women's movements in at least six Latin American countries. Contemporary feminisms in Latin America were therefore born as intrinsically oppositional movements. The regional Encuentros have provided critical forums for movement debates about evolving feminist politics and the movements' relationship to the overall struggle for social justice in Latin America. The chapter presents a brief discussion of the most recent Encuentro in Bogota, held in San Bernardo in November 1990 and ends with conclusions about feminisms in Latin America. The presence in San Bernardo of legislators from Uruguay, Argentina, and as far north as Venezuela underscored the importance that Latin American and Caribbean feminism has assumed.
