• Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • ENG
  • POR
  • ESP
  • Around the world
    • Sexuality & Art
  • Library
    • SPW Books & Reports
    • Monthly announcements
    • SPW Multimedia
    • Working Papers
    • Newsletters
    • We recommend
      • Papers and articles
      • Publications and resources
      • Relevant links
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Research & Politics
  • SPW Activities

We recommend

“We lost Teresita De Barbieri!”

25 Jan 2018


Imagem1

 

Remembering Teresita De Barbieri who passed away on January 21, 2018.

By Ana Laura de Giorgi

 

Uruguayan, feminist and academically committed. First exiled in Chile, then in Mexico, she was one of the firsts to contribute to the feminist thought from Latin America, when there was yet to “construct this new object of study in order to legitimize research about women”.

The Marxist theory in which she had graduated in a progressive Chile, from the confluence of a whole generation of thinkers from the Latinamerican and Dependence Theories, was not sufficient to tackle what would come to be known as reproductive work. She joined Fem along with Tununa Mercado invited by Lourdes Arizpe, where they had a significant role in the diffusion of women’s struggle during the Southern Cone dictatorships.

She took part in the Academia and in several organizations, such as CEPAL – which nowadays represents the idea of institutionalization, but not without its internal battles. In the Preparatory Conference in Caracas in 1975, she denounced the persecution against leftists women in Chile. She contested Vilma Espín’s antifeminist speech in Copenhagen (El Feminismo y la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, Vol. IV, N15, julio-agosto 1980).

She looked for ways of thinking about feminism from a Latin American viewpoint, articulating marxism and feminism. She worked especially with women from popular sectors, rebuilt the everyday life, shone light into invisible work and systematized it. She signaled the “lack of adjustments of Marxist theory readings to the Latin American reality, where it should be clear the feminine condition in underdeveloped and dependent countries, where economies produce ways of non-capitalist production and circulation, where such fragile social security systems alter the labour force value and where women are incorporated into work in a very distinguished way in relation to Europe or the United States.” (FEM Vol. 4, N°17, febrero-marzo 1981).

Today, we should honor and remember this Uruguayan of Latin American Feminist Theory and resume reading her work. Today, when we discuss a system of care, we should not forget we many times we think of it through a key which does not belong to us, to Latin America, to the extended family, a key which cancels the discussion over sexual labor division. Barbieri showed this in the seventies.

May her lost allow us to meet her again. 

 

Download her article Gender and Population Policies: some reflections here.

Categoria: We recommend Tags: feminisms, gender, gender equality, latin america, political economy, reproductive rights

Sharing

Tag Cloud

abortion abortion laws Africa asia Brazil BRICS china contraception criminalization discrimination Egypt feminisms gender gender equality gender identity HIV HIV&AIDS homosexuality HR defenders HR regional systems human rights india intersex rights Islamic societies latin america LGBTQ rights marriage laws political economy political repression race religious discourses religious extremism reproductive rights sexual identity sexuality sexual politics sexual rights sexual violence sex work SOGI trans rights uganda UN US violence

Sexuality Policy Watch

admin@sxpolitics.org
Rio de Janeiro | Brasil
FW2 Agência Digital