ABSTRACT
Latin American women were beginning to count in politics. Latin America developed a more robust working-class contingent in the women's movements, the role of socialist contacts, mainly with Western Europe but later with the Soviet Union, played a growing role. Many socialist and anarchist groups, building from contacts with counterparts in Europe, began to urge equality for women as part of their broader effort at justice, and by the same token many working-class women found gender and worker goals compatible. Latin American conservatives opposed change, delaying the vote in countries like Mexico for a considerable period. Latin America utilized many of the same types of contacts that affected other regions, such as China, its gender patterns were not quite the same in other areas and its capacity to accept and adapt local and international influences distinctive. Latin America strongly affected by another set of wider contacts-in case focused on consumerism and tourism-that take up, in a global framework.
