In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in

The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to n

This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organ

Integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America.

Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries