ABSTRACT
By the early 1990s, activist cultural interventions had been rendered less visible with the ascent of more institutionalized, professionalized, and policy-focused feminist politics. Despite having a decisive influence in the field of cultural studies in the north, a feminist agenda in studies of culture-power-politics in Latin America has been largely absent. Only since the late 1990s has feminist cultural studies—inflected by poststructuralist theories—begun to make its way into the journals and conferences of major Brazilian professional associations. While forming a crucial part of feminist activism from the outset of the so-called second wave, feminist organizing among Afro-Brazilian women, poor and working-class women, lesbians, transwomen, and others among early feminism's "others" had blossomed by the early to mid 1990s. The feminist activist-intellectual shift emphasizing the imbrication of culture-power-politics represents a response to the overall challenges posed by new epistemological and ontological configurations facing feminist theories in the twenty-first century.
