 Gender was translated to Spanish as “género”, which to many was a poor translation. Género, which translates to English as “species” or “kind”, traveled to the Latin American context via academic publishing and sparked debate on its aptness to map onto the feminist conditions of the region. The gender perspective, which employs the paradigm of radical individualism characteristic of the decade, comes to stand alongside the concept of empowerment as one that can specifically target women’s needs. The language of gender and empowerment was used by the United Nations as part of their universalizing goals for women during the 1995 World Conference on Women held in Beijing, a moment which marked mounted tensions around the de-politicization of Latin American feminisms (Bastian Duarte 2012: 157).