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- Title
Feminism, Frogs and Fascism: The Transnational Activism of Brazil's Bertha Lutz.
- Authors
Roth, Cassia; Dubois, Ellen
- Abstract
Bertha Lutz is well known as the founding mother of the Brazilian woman suffrage movement in the 1920s. She also played a highly significant role as a member of the small group of feminists at the 1945 founding of the United Nations. In 1975, Lutz was the only founding pioneer of Latin American feminism at the UN’s International Women’s Year (IWY). This article links Lutz’s feminist legacy via two interrelated analytic explorations: how Lutz went from an advocate of special protective laws for women in the 1920s to a leader of the equal rights cause at the UN in the following decades; and, how Lutz maneuvered politically and sustained her international role through authoritarian patronage networks in Brazil. The article highlights, however, how Lutz’s racial and anti-communist politics underpinned her activism during the Cold War. Lutz tirelessly fought for women’s equal rights nationally and internationally in the post-war era, yet her actions were both tethered to and utilised the power of dictatorships in the name of equal rights.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; LUTZ, Bertha; WOMEN political activists; HISTORY of women's suffrage; WOMEN'S history; 20TH century feminists; UNITED Nations; WOMEN -- International cooperation; INTERNATIONAL Women's Decade, 1976-1985; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on feminism; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Gender & History, 2020, Vol 32, Issue 1, p208
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12461