Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Honors Papers Department 2021 In the Belly of the Beast: The Legacy of Puerto Rican Women in the Development of Anti- Imperialist Feminism Grace Amato Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/genderhp Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, and the Latina/o Studies Commons This Honors Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Department at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Honors Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. In the Belly of the Beast: The Legacy of Puerto Rican Women in the Development of Anti- Imperialist Feminism A thesis presented by Grace Amato to the Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Department in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Connecticut College May 2021 Thesis Advisor: Ariella Rotramel Readers: R. Danielle Egan and Leo Garofalo Amato 2 Contents Introduction, 3 Chapter 1: The Impact of United States Colonialism on Puerto Rican Feminist Thought, 17 Chapter 2: Triple Jeopardy: Connecting Women of Color in the United States and Abroad, 31 Chapter 3: “Vieques Is Our Home!”: The Role of Feminist Activists and Transnational Solidarity in Demilitarizing Vieques, 51 Conclusion, 68 Amato 3 Introduction We cannot emphasize enough the link between our struggle for national liberation and our struggle for emancipation as women.