Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The green handkerchief has distinguished The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion since 2003. Historical heir of the white scarf of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in 2018 it emerged as an emblem that articulates the claims for sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America. This article explores its history and the relationship it weaves with the movement for Human Rights and the transnationalization of feminisms, with a focus on its circulation in Argentina and Mexico. We suggest that the green handkerchief, as a traveling symbol and cognitive bridge, knots different identities and modes of political intervention of contemporary feminisms, identifies and mobilizes, while leaving particularities and differences in latency, opens up to new alliances, generates debates and it produces answers.
Source: Encartes
DOI: 10.29340/en.v3n5.132
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3020149660