  The idea that class is a key dimension of women’s lives is one that is rooted in Latin American feminist activisms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As previously noted in Section 1 (on the history of Latin American feminism), women’s fights for equality of this time were framed in terms of equitable access to social goods (e.g., education). The impact of this push was the transformation of the material lives of people living in poverty more generally. Considerations of the importance of class conditions in understanding the plight of women and the poor have been long rooted in Latin American feminist ideas. Feminist projects concerned with the advancement of women in civil society converged with labor movements and anti-imperial resistance (e.g., Luisa Capetillo). This trend re-emerged during resistance movements of the 1970s that aligned feminist projects with revolutionary parties of the Left across Latin America. As a result, attention to class dimensions has long been part of the feminist methodology. However, this attention has not been without fault. Contemporary theories from the work of Afro-descended women have argued that the overwhelming attention paid to class has come at the expense of analyzing the role that racism has played in the marginalization and exclusion of African-descended and Indigenous populations (Curiel 2007).