Latin American vs OECD's Feminist/ Gender-Sensitive Foreign Policies

Building 3, 133

The practice of labeling foreign policies as "feminist" was initiated by OECD members (Sweden, Canada, France…) and then adopted by several governments throughout the Latin American region, beginning with Mexico. The long and consistent trajectory of a group of Latin American countries in defense of women's / gender rights in multilateral fora, driven by a very active and regionally connected feminist movement, explains the region's receptivity to an initiative that originated in the global North. The lecture will deal with both the common base of OECD's and Latin America's feminist/gender-sensitive foreign policies (progressive international positions on women's and gender rights) and Latin America's specificities, beginning with the pronounced orientation of its feminist foreign policies towards the promotion of domestic women's rights rather than to those of women belonging to external communities, as is the case of their OECD's counterparts.Dr. Mónica Salomón is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil), a member of its Institute of Gender Studies and also a researcher with the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq). She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Between 2014 and 2020, she was one of the two coordinators of the Thematic Area "Foreign Policy" at the Brazilian Political Science Association's encounters. Her research and publications deal with different actors and levels of analysis (from subnational to supranational) of foreign policies. Her current work focuses on the intersections between gender and foreign policy.