Introduction: Abortion Rights Strategies in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico

Barbara Sutton is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies. Prof. Sutton is originally from Argentina, where she earned a law degree, and was trained in the United States as a sociologist. She is the author of Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina, winner of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association. Her book, Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina received Honorable Mentions by the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She co-edited (with Nayla Luz Vacarezza) Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an associate researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. She is affiliated with the Gino Germani Research Institute and teaches sociology courses at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She holds a Sociology degree and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. For more than a decade, Dr. Vacarezza has been doing research about the abortion rights movements in Latin America's Southern Cone, with a focus on its cultural, visual, and affective strategies. She is co-author (with July Chaneton) of the book La intemperie y lo intempestivo. Experiencias del aborto voluntario en el relato de mujeres y varones (2011). She is co-editor (with Cecilia Macón and Mariela Solana) of Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (2021). Her latest co-edited book (with Barbara Sutton) is Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (2021).