Feminism for the Americas

Katherine M. Marino is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In this valuable contribution to the historiography of social movements in the Americas, Marino chronicles the impact of the women's movement of leaders from six countries--Uruguay, Brazil, Panama, Cuba, the US, and Chile--in the interwar years . . . Marino successfully demonstrates that this was a vital period in Pan-American relations.""- Choice Reviews; ""As Marino exposes her subjects' passionate advocacy and agonizing decisions over political strategy from their personal correspondence and conference minutes, the threads from this extraordinary breadth of primary sources are woven into a seamless story. . . . Feminism for the Americas creates a road map for decades of future research.""- Net Reviews; ""Marino's historical analysis is timely and necessary, for it renders accessible this neglected arena of the complex struggle for women's rights in the Western Hemisphere.""- Latino Book Review; ""A brilliant and ambitious new account of the origins of global feminism . . . . Feminism for the Americas reconstructs a radical, transnational, and influential movement for women's equality and social justice.""- International Feminist Journal of Politics; ""Marino's excellent study is a necessary contribution to the history of feminist organizing in the early twentieth century. . . . This timely book extends trends in the fields of U.S. history and U.S. feminist history that seek to employ a more hemispheric orientation, but it also foregrounds how Latin American feminists, with their U.S. counterparts following, took the lead in establishing a global feminist movement.""- Journal of American History; ""[An] often thrilling account. . . . Marino's book is an important work for any scholar or student interested in Latin American feminisms, Pan-American movements, the history of human rights, or even histories of how whiteness has operated in Latin American politics.""- The Americas; ""The best book on Western Hemispheric feminism in at least two decades. . . . A necessary starting point for anyone contemplating research on inter-American feminism. . . . Marino has given us a masterpiece.""- Hispanic American Historical Review; ""Beautifully researched with a cross-section of primary sources-newspapers, photos, letters drawn from archives in six different countries. The magnitude of the research is never lost on this reader; the book should be assigned to all doctoral students pursuing transnational historical research, feminist or not, as a model for what the final product should look like.""- Pacific Historical Review; ""Would make a welcome addition to courses on feminist theory and women's roles in the Americas, and it should encourage scholars to dig deeper into the lives and works of feminists who were on the frontlines without necessarily publishing books or articles about feminism.""- Library Journal, starred review; ""Katherine Marino's brilliant history of feminismo americano gives Latin American women their rightful place in the history of the transnational women's movement. Crafting an engrossing narrative of individual lives and collective action based on exhaustive multinational research, Marino details the ways Latin American feminists fought on the global stage for economic and social, as well as legal, equality throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and made women's rights human rights long before Hillary Rodham Clinton was born.""- Leila Rupp, author of Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement