DE LA IGUALDAD FORMAL A LA DIVERSIDAD. UNA PERSPECTIVA ÉTNICA LATINOAMERICANA

Abstract

This article analyses the birth of some new female identities in Latin America, marked by strong cultural innovation. The process of change has been won by political struggles that have permitted Latin American women to gain some essential rights. Moreover the text describes the complexity of syncretising all Latin America, but the common elements are more important than the differences. However, accepting this diversity, the great inequality of basic essentials in the relationships between women, is producing one voice, one discourse and one common demand. Finally, it shows the political contradictions in which contemporary Latin America women live, summoned to participate, as modern women, in the institutions when these same institutions put them in positions of social, political and economic subordination. Despite these difficulties, it emphasises the political experiments that women are carrying out to f ind a syncretism without eliminating cultural diversity.