INCOHERENT GENDER CITIZENSHIP: Argentina’s Sexual/Reproductive Health and Gender-based Violence Laws

• Autor(a) principal: Chabot, Rose
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Communitas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/COMMUNITAS/article/view/4702
• topic: Gender violence; Reproductive Health; t

Strategic activism led bythe women’s and feminist movements since the 1980s has impelled Latin American statesto legislateon the issues of gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health. Yet, the translation of feminist demands and ideas, its processes and outcomes in multilevel state legislation,has only recently caught the attention of political scientists (Vickers et al. 2020). Using the case of Argentina, I qualitatively analyse national and provincial legislation and demonstrate that significant incoherencies exist in ontological and conceptual incorporations of gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health, gendering in complex waysitscitizenship regime. These incoherencies unfold both horizontally (between policy areas) and vertically (between levels of government). This article invites future empirical research to account for those incoherencies and consider their implications for policymaking, feminist mobilization, and conservative resistance to gender equality-oriented public policie