The Body Politic Gender in the New World Order

In past NACLA Reports, our coverage of gender has focused on women's long struggle for equality and, more recently, on the liberation movements of sexual minorities in Latin America. With feminism and the movements for the rights of sexual minorities has come a questioning of traditional gender roles and identities, and it is this questioning that motivates this Report. "The Body Politic" focuses on the category of gender itself, on the changing meanings of "feminine" and "masculine," and on the common ground of all these conflicts—the body.