Abstract

GONZALEZ, Débora de Fina. Side by Side? Feminisms and State during the Latin American ‘Progressive Cycle’. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.3, e63040.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2020v28n363040.

Through a comparative perspective between the experiences of Brazil and Chile, this article analyzes to what extent center-left administrations constituted a political opportunity to advance in ensuring women’s rights through the institutional spaces. To this end, it focuses on the relations established between feminisms and State during the so-called ‘progressive cycle’ in Latin America, mainly through the national women’s policies agencies. In both contexts, center-left governments have contributed to develop policies for women at national level, but in different ways - in Brazil with a participatory model and the evident approximation between feminisms and the State and in Chile with a technocratic model, as part of a gender mainstreaming or State modernization process, engendering also different outcomes.

Keywords : Feminisms; State; Public policies for women; Brazil; Chile.

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