Covering eleven jurisdictions, this book discusses to what extent and in what ways constitutional design and practice in Latin America has helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQI+ people.

Contributors vii Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments x Comparative Landscapes of Gender and Constitutionalism in Latin America 1 FRANCISCA POU GIMÉNEZ, RUTH RUBIO MARÍN, VERÓNICA UNDURRAGA VALDÉS, AND NATALIA MORALES CERDA 1 Women, Gender, Human Rights, and Constitutionalism in Costa Rica 38 ALDA FACIO, RODRIGO JIMÉNEZ, AND MARTHA MORGAN 2 Women and LGBTQIA+ Rights in Colombia 67 ISABEL CRISTINA JARAMILLO-SIERRA 3 Gender Constitutionalism in Ecuador 95 DANIELA SALAZAR MARÍN 4 Bolivian Constitutionalism from the Perspective of Gender and Intersectionality 121 MARÍA ELENA ATTARD BELLIDO 5 Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Supreme Court: Expansion of Rights, Ambivalent Reasoning, and Telling Omissions 144 JULIANA CESARIO ALVIM GOMES AND MARTA RODRÍGUEZ DE ASSIS MACHADO 6 Gender and Constitutionalism in Mexico 171 FRANCISCA POU GIMÉNEZ AND SOFÍA TREVIÑO FERNÁNDEZ 7 The Ambivalent and Hetero-Cis-Normative Peruvian Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Twenty-First Century 199 CRISTINA VALEGA CHIPOCO AND XIMENA BENAVIDES REVERDITTO 8 The Role of Chilean Constitutional Law in Gender (In)Equality 230 YANIRA ZÚÑIGA AÑAZCO AND VERÓNICA UNDURRAGA VALDÉS 9 Women, Gender, Colonialism, and Constitutional Law in Puerto Rico 256 YANIRA REYES GIL 10 Constitutionalizing Gender: A View from Argentina 284 DELFINA BEGUERIE AND PAOLA BERGALLO 11 Gender and the Constitution in Uruguay 311 LUCÍA GIUDICE GRAÑA AND LUCÍA BERRO PIZZAROSSA Index 335