Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean : the Political Economy of Gender.

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first publishe...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Abbassi, Jennifer
Autres auteurs: Lutjens, Sheryl L., De Brito, Angela Nieves-Xavier, Cañadell, Rosa M., Chinchilla, Norma, Eber, Christine E., T. Ho, Christine G., Kampwirth, Karen, Kunzle, David, Leacock, Eleanor, Nelson, Sara, Safa, Helen I., Savigliano, Marta E., Stephen, Lynn, Sternbach, Nancy Saporta, Townsend, Camilla, Vaughan, Mary Kay, Viezzer, Moema, Young, Grace Ester
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Collection:Latin American perspectives in the classroom.
Sujets:
Women > Latin America > Economic conditions.
Women > Caribbean Area > Economic conditions.
Women > Latin America > Social conditions.
Women > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Women > Political activity > Latin America.
Women > Political activity > Caribbean Area.
Women.
Women
Femmes.
Femmes en politique.
Femmes > Amérique latine > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Caraïbes (Région) > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Amérique latine > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Caraïbes (Région) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Activité politique > Amérique latine.
Femmes > Activité politique > Caraïbes (Région)
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Political activity
Women > Social conditions
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Politik
Soziale Situation
Frau
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Caribbean Area
Latin America
Karibik
Lateinamerika
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Introduction Ronald H. Chilcote; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theory, Themes, and the Realities of Gender in Latin America Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens; Part I: Women, Work, and Development; 1 Introduction to Part I; Selection from ""Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions, "" by Eleanor Leacock; Selection from ""Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women in the Informal Sector, "" by Tamar Diana Wilson; 2 Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination Helen I. Safa.
  • 3 The Urban Family and Poverty in Latin America mercedes González de la Rocha4 The Myth of Being ""Like a Daughter"" Grace Esther Young; 5 Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment Lynn Stephen; 6 Caribbean Transnationalism As a Gendered Process Christine G.T. Ho; Part II: Politics, Policies, and the State; 7 Introduction to Part II; Selection from ""Mobilizing Women: Revolution in theRevolution, "" by Norma Stoltz Chinchilla; Selection from ""Gender Equality in the Salvadoran Transition, "" by Ilja A. Luciak.
  • 8 Chilean Women's Organizations and Their Potential for Change Rosa M. Cañadell9 El Comité de Amas de Casade Siglo XX: An Organizational Experience of Bolivian Women Moema Viezzer; 10 The Mother of the Nicaraguans: Dona Violeta and the UNO's Gender Agenda Karen Kampwirth; 11 Constructing and Negotiating Gender in Women's Police Stations in Brazil Sara Nelson; 12 Reading between the Lines: Women, the State, and Rectification in Cuba Sheryl L. Lutjens; 13 Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San Pedro, Chenalhó, Chiapas (1980-1998) Christine E. Eber.
  • Part III: Culture, History, and Feminisms14 Introduction to Part III; Selection from ""Women, Class, and Education in Mexico,1880-1928,"" by Mary K. Vaughan; Selection from ""Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New FemalePractice in Journalism, "" by Margaret Randall; Selection from ""If Truth Be Told, "" by Jan Rus; 15 Story without Words: Women and the Creation of a Mestizo People in Guayaquil, 1820-1835 Camilla Townsend; 16 Brazilian Women in Exile: The Quest for an Identity Angela Xavier de Brito; 17 Remembering the Dead: Latin American Women's""Testimonial"" Discourse Nancy Saporta Sternbach.
  • 18 Róger Sánchez's ""Humor Erótico"" and the Semana Cómica:A Sexual Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua? David Kunzle19 Evita: The Globalization of a National Myth Marta E. Savigliano; Annotated Index of Articles on Women and Gender in Latin American Perspectives; Index; About the Contributors.

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