Monica Maher

WSRP Research Associate 2007–08
Colorado Scholar

 

Home institution

Harvard Divinity School

Research project

Faith and Feminicide in Latin America

This project will analyze the ways symbolic structures grounded in religious/moral discourses function to legitimize, even facilitate, feminicide in Latin America. The research will focus on the myths which faith-based women's groups identify as key religious meta-narratives which sustain the current sex/gender hierarchy and the directions Latin American women are taking to reconstruct a paradigm of women's religious/political empowerment.

WSRP lecture

Faith and Feminicide in Latin America