Feminism for the Americas is the best book on Western Hemispheric feminism in at least two decades, because it solves the dispute about whether the term feminism could apply to Latin America or whether it was misappropriated by Latin American women or imposed by North American women during the beginning of the US expansionist century. Marino, through deep exploration of archival sources from throughout the Americas, is able to show that feminism emerged across the hemisphere from differing cultural and historic roots, rising from modest, local societies to regional, national, and international organizations. These strands of feminism cooperated when compromises were mutually beneficial and divided over irreconcilable differences. Because Marino traces feminismo americano in the first half of the twentieth century, a century of US imperialism, two world wars, and the Great Depression, she demonstrates that feminism influenced peace movements, the definition of human rights, and the presence of major...

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