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Cora Fernandez Anderson received the LASA-Ford grant together with Mexican scholar Paola Sesia and Argentine scholar Celeste Jerez. The grant will finance a Latin American research group on Obstetric Violence. The group will produce the first edited collection in the English language of the work of Latin American scholars on this topic.
Siri Suh and Cora Fernandez Anderson (2025). ICPD at Thirty: Moving Beyond Rights Towards Justice in Global Reproductive Health. Studies in Comparative International Development
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Fernandez Anderson, Cora, Anna Calasanti and Tamara Kay (2025). Diffusing Strategies North-South and South-North: Circular Diffusion and the Case of Abortion Rights Movements in the United States and Latin America. Socius https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231251389691
Fernandez Anderson, C. (2024) “Legalizing Abortion in the Southern Cone,” The Journal of Political Science and Politics
Fernandez Anderson, C. (2022) “Legalizing Abortion in Argentina: Social Movements and Multiparty Coalitions,” The Journal of Politics in Latin America 14(2): 143-165.
Fernandez Anderson, C. (2021) Abortion and political parties in the Southern Cone: Electoral costs, platforms and feminist activists. In B. Sutton and N. Vaccarezza, (eds.) . New York, NY: Routledge.
Fernandez Anderson, C. (2021, January 11). "Argentina legalizes abortion until 14 weeks, and we have feminist organizers to thank" Ms. Magazine. Retrieved from
Fernandez Anderson, C. (2020, December 12). "Argentina's Lower Chamber legalizes abortion until 14 weeks" Ms. Magazine, Retrieved from:
Fernández Anderson, C. (2020, July 9). Activists keep Argentina's abortion reform on the agenda despite COVID-19. NACLA
Fernández Anderson, C. (2020). Latin American Women’s Movements: A Historical Overview. In Xochitl Bada and Liliana Rivera-Sanchez (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
