Feminist Flows, Feminist Fault Lines: Women’s Machineries and Women’s Movements in Latin America

Abstract

This article begins with the assumption that the flow of feminist ideas and practices is multilayered, multidirectional, and always in translation. Locating various sites of feminist work in Brazil and Ecuador, the article examines two pervasive translations of feminism, referred to by the authors as the "UN‐orbit" and "another‐world" translations. Globalization is understood to be an important context for a dynamic feminist politics that both supports and divides feminist efforts in these translations. The article suggests that the dynamic of international feminism requires analysis of the specific location of feminist flows as well as of the similar and divergent contexts, practices, and visions that inform feminist translations.