Becoming Feminist: Women’s Leadership and Organizational Autonomy in Women’s Social Movements in Argentina and India

• In Event: Feminist and Anti-feminist Movements

Brief Overview

This paper compares the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to Hindu nationalist women in India—neither of which started as feminist movements—to excavate the factors that led the former to support feminist causes while the latter did not.

Authors

• Rina Verma Williams, University of Cincinnati

• Crystal Whetstone, Sam Houston State University