Machismo and Women’s Rights in Latin Culture

Join La Alianza and the WLA Women’s History Month Committee for a lunch conversation on Machismo and Women’s Rights in Latin Culture with Scholars Alicia Ely Yamin & Matthew Gutmann.

Matthew Gutmann, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University, studies on gender, masculinity, sexuality, reproductive health, and social change in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico. His books include Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short, The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City, and Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico.

Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer on Law and Director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, is a scholar of health and human rights whose work centers on reproductive justice, maternal health, abortion rights, and democratic accountability in Latin America and beyond. She has written extensively on sexual and reproductive rights in Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and the broader Latin American region. Yamin is also Senior Adviser on Human Rights and Health Policy at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health and Research Leader on “gender and the law” at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation.

Food will be served!