Dall’internalizzazione marxista al neoliberimo globale: i femminismi messicani (1970-2000)

From Marxist Internationalism to Global Neoliberalism: Mexican Feminisms (1970-2000)
This paper intends to deal with the dramatic transformation that impacted Mexican feminist movements from their creation in the early 1970s to the years 2000. From its inception, Mexican feminism has been nourished by international contributions and foreign activists. The first phase of its history is characterized by the integration of feminist from the rest of Latin America and a vivid leftist activism, marked by Marxism and anti-imperialist rhetoric. The global and continental transformations that affected the region in the 1980’s (democratization and neoliberal takeover) radically transformed the feminist politics and introduced a first movement of professionalization and organization. The involvement in global politics through Cairo and Beijing Un Summits in 1994 and 1995 propitiated a formidable creation of new Ngos and transnational networks that achieved to throw Mexican movements into a true transnational articulation and organization. The recent drop in funding opportunities has thereafter diminished the transnational dimension of feminist movements and recentered the actions on a local basis, leaving transnational actions to sporadic virtual campaigns.