In this guide, you will find research tools from various resources and subject areas related to feminist and gender studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. We have compiled just a fraction of the material available at the library. Please, do not hesitate to contact Dr. Antonio Sotomayor for more information:
Only 1 in 10 indigenous girls finish their high school education in Latin America. The States should eradicate discrimination against indigenous women from an integral perspective, Inter American Commission of Human Rights.
Latin American women have played a crucial role in human rights activism across the continent, particularly during the dictatorships that have ruled the continent in the 1970s and 1980s. By Archivo Hasenberg-Quaretti - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Women activists embody a crucial role in the interplay between feminism, ecology, and indigenous rights. Activists such as Berta Cáceres, killed in 2016 due to her role as the leader of the Civil Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, is one of several examples in Latin American history of women. Berta Cáceres on the banks of the Gualcarque River. Photo credit: Goldman Environmental Prize.
Welcome to the Research Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Feminist and Gender Studies. The purpose of this guide is to provide direction and access to resources on LA&C feminist and gender studies available to students, staff, faculty, and visiting scholars at the University of Illinois Library. In addition to highlighting print resources in the collection, the guide also provides information about e-resources across the region. Although most of the material presented here is available in our collection (physical and virtual), you will also find sources openly available in the internet.
The Latin American and Caribbean feminist and gender studies collection at Illinois includes books, e-books, edited collections, media resources, and journal databases among other formats, and published in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French. There are also some special items from early Latin American feminists available in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library providing insights to exceptional women and thinkers. While this guide aims to be comprehensive, some researchers might need extra assistance with particular topics. We encourage you to contact Prof. Antonio Sotomayor, Librarian of Latin America and Caribbean Studies, for further assistance.
Guide Prepared by:
Claudia Lagos Lira - Graduate Student
Dr. Antonio Sotomayor - Librarian of Latin American & Caribbean Studies