Feminism and conservatism in Córdoba. Mobilization and legal countermobilization under Argentine federalism

The dynamic between mobilization and countermobilization, which is a characteristic of contemporary social movements, in Latin America has occurred especially in the area of sexual and reproductive rights, and in the last two decades it has had the legal field as a privileged site. In Argentina this...

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Main Author: Ruibal, Alba
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Estudios Avanzados 2024
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/44520
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Summary:The dynamic between mobilization and countermobilization, which is a characteristic of contemporary social movements, in Latin America has occurred especially in the area of sexual and reproductive rights, and in the last two decades it has had the legal field as a privileged site. In Argentina this dynamic has occurred at the subnational level. The province of Córdoba has been the place where conservative strategic litigation by civil society organizations has been most systematically deployed in the country, against the local implementation of national norms on sexual and reproductive rights. In this context, feminism in Córdoba has developed important organizational networks among legal activists and health professionals, who carried out a process of institutionalization and regulatory creation from below, working between the national and municipal levels, in the face of the blockade at the provincial level due to judicialization. This article analyzes this process, and argues that the federal organization of the judicial power in the country contributes to the development of legal strategies of both movements and countermovements at the subnational level.