Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 5, Issue 10 , Pages 99-106 , November 1997

Women's struggle to decide about their own bodies: Abortion and sexual rights in Argentina

  • Mabel Bellucci

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence Mabel Bellucci, Anchorena 1853, 11 ‘B’, 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fax: 54-1-827-3367

References 

    References and Notes
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  2. In Argentina, the Communist Party and the Trotskyites were the only ones who posed such demands in their political platforms.

  3. Nari M . Abrir los ojos, abrir la cabeza . Feminaria . 1996;18–19:16; (Nov)
  4. In: The level of higher or university education in the active female population doubled between 1970 and 1980. Source . Censo National de Población y Vivienda . Argentina: INDEC. Ministerio de Economia; 1980;
  5. Fernández A . Femineidad: en cuerpo y alma. El arte, el amor y la violencia . Revista Los '70 . 1997;5:9
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  7. This decree, together with the one written in 1977 (No 3938) by the military dictatorship were repealed by President Alfonsin in 1986 and thus generated a new normative condition.

  8. The military dictatorship of 1976–1983 imposed state terrorism, which led to the disappearance of approximately 30,000 people; the kidnap and torture of political activists, trade union and social leaders in concentration camps; and the disappearance and sale of children born in detention homes. Moreover, the dictatorship greatly increased the international debt and declared war on Great Britain for the Falkland Islands.

  9. Bellotti M . El feminismo y el movimiento de mujeres: Argentina 1984–1989 . Cuadernos Feministas . 1989;34:2; (Nov)
  10. Cecym  . Feminismo por feministas: fragmentos para una historia del feminismo, 1970–1996 . Travesías . 1997;5
  11. Gutierrez MA , Gogna M , Ramos S . Hacia nuevas formas de relation entre la sociedad civil y el estado: la experiencia de Mujeres Autoconvocadas para Decidir en Libertad . 1996; Buenos Aires, Octubre. (In press)
  12. These conclusions were enriched by the provocative ideas of Lamas M, 1996. Movimiento feminista y discurso político: los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en la construcción de una ciudadanía moderna. Paper presented at National Seminar on Social Politics, Sexuality and Reproductive Health. Mexico.

PII: S0968-8080(97)90090-2

doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(97)90090-2

Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 5, Issue 10 , Pages 99-106 , November 1997