Abstract

BARSTED, Leila de Andrade Linhares. Legalização e descriminalização: 10 anos de luta feminista. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 1992, vol.00, n.00, pp.104-130. ISSN 1806-9584.

This article recapitulates ten years of struggle for the legalization of abortion in Brazil, particularly in the Rio-São Paulo area. Based on a chronological analysis of the issue, Linhares Barsted emphasizes the complexity of positions assumed by the feminist movement as well as its strategies, advances, retreats, consensuses, and points of dissension. Throughout the article, the author stresses the feminist movement's internal contradictions during this period and Brazil's political context in the 1960s and 1970s as well as the movement's confrontations with the Catholic Church.

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