E J Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E J Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | E J |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3134-4124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 411 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Genealogía híbrida de las activistas jóvenes en Argentina
The hybrid genealogy of young women activists in Argentina: “Many dissidences and many feminisms” Feminist mobilizations have intensified in Latin America thanks to the incorporation of a significant youth contingent. These new activists bring with them transformations in social movements’ strategies and frameworks of understanding. Taking the Argentine case as the context, in this article we focus on a fundamental dimension of young women’s femi…
El viento arrollador”
En 2015, el activismo feminista de Argentina alcanzó una escala sin precedentes con la marcha Ni Una Menos. Tomando esta protesta como terreno empírico, en este artículo se indaga en los factores que explican por qué las mujeres jóvenes se unen a los movimientos feministas. En particular, por qué se volcaron a las calles para protestar y denunciar los feminicidios y la violencia de género. Mediante entrevistas a jóvenes, a organizadoras de la mar…
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists
From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive social and economic hierarchies. This study addresses a foundational aspect of the upsurge of young feminist mass mobilization: feminist identity itself. To understand the feminism of this highly motivated younger generation, we ground our explorations in the l…
Violence
The inequalities embedded in the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are glaring. Home to 81 percent of the world’s adult population, low- and middle-income countries have been able to
Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash
(2021). Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash: lessons from Latin America. International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 23, Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash: lessons from Latin America. Guest Edited by Gisela Zaremberg and Constanza Tabbush, pp. 527-534
Feminist editing in an unfeminist world
Feminist work, and that of International Feminist Journal of Politics authors in particular, seeks to go beyond the dynamics of “visible” exclusions, marginalizations, and oppressions. As feminist
Feminist spaces
The articles in this Special Issue testify to the power of research deeply informed by and anchored in the realities of feminist action and analysis in a region of the Global South. They also demon
Vectors and warp speed
As we face the grim global statistics of 1.5 million deaths and more than 65 million cases and second or even third waves happening in many countries, the news of effective COVID-19 vaccines shines
Research ethics and epistemic oppression
Both in theory and practice, a consistent interrogation of epistemic oppression and the shadows that it casts is the leitmotif of our editorial engagement, or (im)print on the International Feminis
Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is set to completely reconfigure the world as we know it – but only if we are prepared to shift what, and how, we “know.” The pandemic has overturned conventional “wisdom,” re
Epistemological pitfalls of homogenization in the politics of resistance
The discipline of international relations (IR) is a terrain of global, gendered, racialized politics. These politics, new and old, are deeply rooted, and embedded in structures of racial and gender
Feminism+knowledge+politics
Feminist Activism Confronts Covid-19
Activist Responses Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. (c) 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 629 Constanza Tabbush and Elisabeth Jay Friedman Feminist Activism Confronts COVID-19 Even the most committed of feminists may see the current global health crisis as insurmountable.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare- and exacerbated-deep-seated and interlocking inequalities. Women and gender non-conforming people, particularly those without class and ethno-racia…
Omar G Encarnación, Out in the Periphery
Negotiating complex identities
Resisting global anti-genderism with global feminist research
Right-wing misogyny is nothing new, but we are clearly witnessing a fresh and significant global rise of reactionary right-wing movements and governments. This upswing is notable for the specific
Visual global politics
One of the exciting things about being editors of the International Feminist Journal of Politics is that we get to see the leading edge of global feminist scholarship. As we mentioned in our last e
From iron cages to blurred binaries
Despite the difficulties in transforming the patriarchal, heteronormative, and racialized ideologies and hegemonic economic rationalities undergirding governance institutions, many feminists have w
Introduction
Queen for a Day
Latin America's Radical Left
For the last two decades, Latin America has presented us with the opportunity to delve into the realities, and not just the conceptual or utopian fantasies, of the Left in power. As is to be expected from a Latin American Perspectives publication, this collection seeks to challenge or even reverse the mainstream assessment that the Latin American Left can be divided into the “good Left”—the institutionalized, neoliberal cases not much discussed h…
Feminism Under Construction
For feminist organizing in Latin America, divergent identities and political beliefs must be seen as fundamental, rather than incidental, to the movement
"Constructing "The Same Rights with the Same Names
This article argues that Spain has been the driving external force in the advancement of LGBT rights in Latin America, from marriage in Argentina to the regional recognition of "sexual diversity rights" as human rights. Acting as "norm entrepreneurs," Spanish activists and organizations, relying on development aid, have promoted their perspectives through two approaches: strategic consulting and resource transfer. Their diffusion is illustrated p…
Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Left
This article examines the extent of change under Latin American left governments by assessing their actions on women's and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. To provide a historical context, it first offers an overview of the relationship between feminist movements and the left. It then employs a four-country comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela on women's socioeconomic status; feminist state–society relations; wo…
Re(gion)alizing Women's Human Rights in Latin America
Between 1993 and 2000, nearly every democracy in Latin America passed a law prohibiting domestic violence. Between 2001 and 2006, five countries strengthened their legislation, and Brazil passed its first law. What explains these advances with respect to women's rights? While other work has focused on domestic or international factors, this article brings to light the role of the region. It reveals that the two inter-American women's rights organ…
The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society
The increased visibility of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements at the international level invites continuing evaluation of the extent and significance of the role they now play in world politics. While the presence of such new actors is easily demonstrated, international relations scholars have debated their significance. The authors argue that the concept of global civil society sets a more demanding standard for the evalu…
Gendering the agenda
Re(gion)alizing Women's Human Rights in Latin America
Between 1993 and 2000, nearly every democracy in Latin America passed a law prohibiting domestic violence. Between 2001 and 2006, five countries strengthened their legislation, and Brazil passed its first law. What explains these advances with respect to women's rights? While other work has focused on domestic or international factors, this article brings to light the role of the region. It reveals that the two inter-American women's rights organ…
Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos
Este artigo examina os Encontros Latino-Americanos e do Caribe como espaços críticos transnacionais onde se re-imagina a política dos feminismos na região. Enfocando o Oitavo desses Encontros, realizado em Juan Dolio, República Dominicana, em 1999, analisamos os principais debates politicos e filosóficos que surgiram durante 20 anos de Encontros: (1) mudanças nas concepções de 'autonomia' do movimento e na relação dos feminismos com o movimento d…
Assessing the Third Transition in Latin American Democratization
In the last two decades most Latin American countries have made the political transition to formal liberal democracy.With a few notable exceptions, the threat of authoritarian reversals has diminished.But although democratic stability does not seem to be imminently imperiled, the quality of the democracies in the region often seems quite low.Instead of consolidated democracies, observers have found "hybrid" or "delegative" regimes, run on the pri…
Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash
(2021). Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash: lessons from Latin America. International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 23, Feminism(s) and anti-gender backlash: lessons from Latin America. Guest Edited by Gisela Zaremberg and Constanza Tabbush, pp. 527-534
Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Left
This article examines the extent of change under Latin American left governments by assessing their actions on women's and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. To provide a historical context, it first offers an overview of the relationship between feminist movements and the left. It then employs a four-country comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela on women's socioeconomic status; feminist state–society relations; wo…
Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America
This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have experienced sharp crises after several decades of mixed reviews for their party systems. At such moments, any replacement of parties by CSOs should be especially apparent. …
Sovereignty in the Balance
States vary the content and subject matter of their claims to sovereignty. In an analysis of when states invoked sovereignty at recent UN World Conferences on the environment (1992), human rights (1993), and women (1995), the authors revise and extend Litfin's (1997) notion of bargains among components of sovereignty. At the conferences, states invoked sovereignty in debates over cultural and religious values, economics, and increased internation…
The Effects of 'Transnationalism Reversed' in Venezuela
The UN world women's conferences - in particular the two most recent ones, held in Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995) - have been celebrated as catalysts for the development of a transnational women's movement. But their achievements are less clear when examining their impacts on national organizing. Consideration of the effects of 'transnationalism reversed', or how transnational organizing affects national contexts, reveals that domestic conditi…
"Constructing "The Same Rights with the Same Names
This article argues that Spain has been the driving external force in the advancement of LGBT rights in Latin America, from marriage in Argentina to the regional recognition of "sexual diversity rights" as human rights. Acting as "norm entrepreneurs," Spanish activists and organizations, relying on development aid, have promoted their perspectives through two approaches: strategic consulting and resource transfer. Their diffusion is illustrated p…
Feminist Activism Confronts Covid-19
Activist Responses Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. (c) 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 629 Constanza Tabbush and Elisabeth Jay Friedman Feminist Activism Confronts COVID-19 Even the most committed of feminists may see the current global health crisis as insurmountable.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare- and exacerbated-deep-seated and interlocking inequalities. Women and gender non-conforming people, particularly those without class and ethno-racia…
State-Based Advocacy for Gender Equality in the Developing World
National agencies for women have engaged the state as advocates of women's rights, taking on issues from reproductive rights to pay equity. Current analysis focuses on both the origins and effectiveness of such agencies. However, such analysis is predominantly based on studies from the developed world. Thus, examination of individual cases from the developing world can expand our understanding of the potential of state equalityadvocacy by extendi…
Activist Faith
Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile. By Carol Drogus and Hannah Stewart-Gambino. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. 212 pp. $55.00.In the 1970s and 1980s, civil society–based movements rose up to fight against authoritarian regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Some of the most unexpected, and inspirational, of the actors involved were poor women. Many of them were mobilized throug…
The Reality of Virtual Reality
This article examines the internet's potential to democratize gender equality advocacy in Latin America. Based on field research in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, it challenges the assumption that the internet's horizontal organization and widespread dissemination inherently or inevitably lead to greater democratization. It advances two interrelated arguments. First, the internet's potential to foster democratic relations and effective strategies…
Representação, partidos e sociedade civil na Argentina e no Brasil
Este artigo questiona se as organizações da sociedade civil (OSCs) podem e cumprem o papel de exercer uma função de representação em tempos de crise dos partidos políticos. Para tanto, ele examina práticas recentes de representação no Brasil e na Argentina, dois países onde os partidos políticos têm experimentado crises agudas depois de décadas de avaliações ambíguas a respeito de seus sistemas partidários. Em tais momentos, qualquer substituição…
Lesbians in (cyber)space
Living in societies that use law, mainstream media and social opprobrium to deny their enjoyment of basic rights – and sometimes their very existence – Latin American lesbians have long relied on alternative ways of expressing and associating themselves. In the late 1990s, they adopted a powerful new tool that is also a'virtual' space: the internet, or cyberspace. This article argues that cyberspace – the dense web of information and communicatio…
El viento arrollador”
En 2015, el activismo feminista de Argentina alcanzó una escala sin precedentes con la marcha Ni Una Menos. Tomando esta protesta como terreno empírico, en este artículo se indaga en los factores que explican por qué las mujeres jóvenes se unen a los movimientos feministas. En particular, por qué se volcaron a las calles para protestar y denunciar los feminicidios y la violencia de género. Mediante entrevistas a jóvenes, a organizadoras de la mar…
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists
From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive social and economic hierarchies. This study addresses a foundational aspect of the upsurge of young feminist mass mobilization: feminist identity itself. To understand the feminism of this highly motivated younger generation, we ground our explorations in the l…
Research ethics and epistemic oppression
Both in theory and practice, a consistent interrogation of epistemic oppression and the shadows that it casts is the leitmotif of our editorial engagement, or (im)print on the International Feminis
Epistemological pitfalls of homogenization in the politics of resistance
The discipline of international relations (IR) is a terrain of global, gendered, racialized politics. These politics, new and old, are deeply rooted, and embedded in structures of racial and gender
Feminist editing in an unfeminist world
Feminist work, and that of International Feminist Journal of Politics authors in particular, seeks to go beyond the dynamics of “visible” exclusions, marginalizations, and oppressions. As feminist
Why Women Protest
Journal Article Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile Get access Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile by Lisa Baldez. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 240 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. Elisabeth Jay Friedman Elisabeth Jay Friedman Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.100…
War's Offense on Women
Journal Article War's Offense on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan Get access War's Offense on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan by Julie A. Mertus. Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2000. 157 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Elisabeth Jay Friedman Elisabeth Jay Friedman Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
State-based advocacy for gender equality in the developing world
Moscow and Beijing, Together Again
Roy Medvedev's new book reflects an important change among ruling circles in the Soviet Union, a willingness fundamentally to transform and improve Moscow-Beijing relations by making concessions to China away from the hard-line stance long backed by Soviet conservatives. Anti-Stalinist historian Medvedev details the assumptions underlying this major redirection of Soviet policy. Even the errors and omissions in Medvedev's important book are illum…
Democratization and Re-Stalinization in China
When, in order to legitimate its repression, Deng Xiaoping's regime denounced the May-June 1989 democracy demonstrators as counterrevolutionaries seeking to violently replace a socialist revolution with a reactionary democratic bourgeois dictatorship, the question of revolution tragically resurfaced. Surprisingly, the demonstrators were not urging a violent overthrow of the government. Many regretted the original revolution which brought Mao Zedo…
Paradoxes of Gendered Political Opportunity in the Venezuelan Transition to Democracy
On International Women's Day in March 1958, ten thousand women gathered in the largest stadium in Caracas to celebrate the fall of the dictatorship of Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez and to commemorate the many women who had taken an active role in opposing it. This gathering was the first mass meeting following the demise of authoritarian rule. Despite the array of political views represented in the audience and on the dais, unity was stressed by eve…
The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society
The increased visibility of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements at the international level invites continuing evaluation of the extent and significance of the role they now play in world politics. While the presence of such new actors is easily demonstrated, international relations scholars have debated their significance. The authors argue that the concept of global civil society sets a more demanding standard for the evalu…
The Effects of 'Transnationalism Reversed' in Venezuela
The UN world women's conferences - in particular the two most recent ones, held in Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995) - have been celebrated as catalysts for the development of a transnational women's movement. But their achievements are less clear when examining their impacts on national organizing. Consideration of the effects of 'transnationalism reversed', or how transnational organizing affects national contexts, reveals that domestic conditi…
In Brief
State-Based Advocacy for Gender Equality in the Developing World
National agencies for women have engaged the state as advocates of women's rights, taking on issues from reproductive rights to pay equity. Current analysis focuses on both the origins and effectiveness of such agencies. However, such analysis is predominantly based on studies from the developed world. Thus, examination of individual cases from the developing world can expand our understanding of the potential of state equalityadvocacy by extendi…
Sovereignty in the Balance
States vary the content and subject matter of their claims to sovereignty. In an analysis of when states invoked sovereignty at recent UN World Conferences on the environment (1992), human rights (1993), and women (1995), the authors revise and extend Litfin's (1997) notion of bargains among components of sovereignty. At the conferences, states invoked sovereignty in debates over cultural and religious values, economics, and increased internation…
State-based advocacy for gender equality in the developing world
Sovereign Limits and Regional Opportunities for Global Civil Society in Latin America
In this article, we evaluate whether Latin American participation in international arenas reinforces traditional divides between state and society in global politics or transforms state-society relations in ways compatible with the concept of global civil society. We examine the participation and interaction of Latin American nongovernmental organizations and states at three recent United Nations conferences: the 1992 UN Conference on Environment…
Audacious Reforms
Journal Article Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America Get access Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America by Merilee S. Grindle. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 269 pp. Paper, $17.95. Elisabeth Jay Friedman Elisabeth Jay Friedman Barnard College, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
War's Offense on Women
Journal Article War's Offense on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan Get access War's Offense on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan by Julie A. Mertus. Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2000. 157 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Elisabeth Jay Friedman Elisabeth Jay Friedman Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
Assessing the Third Transition in Latin American Democratization
In the last two decades most Latin American countries have made the political transition to formal liberal democracy.With a few notable exceptions, the threat of authoritarian reversals has diminished.But although democratic stability does not seem to be imminently imperiled, the quality of the democracies in the region often seems quite low.Instead of consolidated democracies, observers have found "hybrid" or "delegative" regimes, run on the pri…
Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms
This article examines the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros as critical transnational sites for the collective re-imagining of feminist politics in the region. Paying special attention to the most recent regional gathering, held in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic in 1999, we analyze the major political and philosophical debates that have emerged during twenty years of Encuentros: 1) shifting conceptions of movement "autonomy" and fe…
Gendering the agenda
Why Women Protest
Journal Article Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile Get access Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile by Lisa Baldez. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 240 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. Elisabeth Jay Friedman Elisabeth Jay Friedman Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.100…
Encontrando os feminismos latino-americanos e caribenhos
Este artigo examina os Encontros Latino-Americanos e do Caribe como espaços críticos transnacionais onde se re-imagina a política dos feminismos na região. Enfocando o Oitavo desses Encontros, realizado em Juan Dolio, República Dominicana, em 1999, analisamos os principais debates politicos e filosóficos que surgiram durante 20 anos de Encontros: (1) mudanças nas concepções de 'autonomia' do movimento e na relação dos feminismos com o movimento d…
Activist Faith
Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile. By Carol Drogus and Hannah Stewart-Gambino. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. 212 pp. $55.00.In the 1970s and 1980s, civil society–based movements rose up to fight against authoritarian regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Some of the most unexpected, and inspirational, of the actors involved were poor women. Many of them were mobilized throug…
The Reality of Virtual Reality
This article examines the internet's potential to democratize gender equality advocacy in Latin America. Based on field research in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, it challenges the assumption that the internet's horizontal organization and widespread dissemination inherently or inevitably lead to greater democratization. It advances two interrelated arguments. First, the internet's potential to foster democratic relations and effective strategies…
Bringing Women to International Human Rights
How did women become human? At least, how did women's rights become human rights? Although at this point in history, the concept of “women's human rights” is so integrated in the human rights frame
Introduction
Many are speculating about the true colors of Latin America’s much-heralded “pink tide.” Just how close to socialist “red” are the region’s new left-leaning governments? This Report approaches the
Lesbians in (cyber)space
Living in societies that use law, mainstream media and social opprobrium to deny their enjoyment of basic rights – and sometimes their very existence – Latin American lesbians have long relied on alternative ways of expressing and associating themselves. In the late 1990s, they adopted a powerful new tool that is also a'virtual' space: the internet, or cyberspace. This article argues that cyberspace – the dense web of information and communicatio…
Representação, partidos e sociedade civil na Argentina e no Brasil
Este artigo questiona se as organizações da sociedade civil (OSCs) podem e cumprem o papel de exercer uma função de representação em tempos de crise dos partidos políticos. Para tanto, ele examina práticas recentes de representação no Brasil e na Argentina, dois países onde os partidos políticos têm experimentado crises agudas depois de décadas de avaliações ambíguas a respeito de seus sistemas partidários. Em tais momentos, qualquer substituição…
Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America
This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have experienced sharp crises after several decades of mixed reviews for their party systems. At such moments, any replacement of parties by CSOs should be especially apparent. …
Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Left
This article examines the extent of change under Latin American left governments by assessing their actions on women's and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. To provide a historical context, it first offers an overview of the relationship between feminist movements and the left. It then employs a four-country comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela on women's socioeconomic status; feminist state–society relations; wo…
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