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From the revolution to the maquiladoras : gender, labor, and globalization in Nicaragua /

Jennifer Bickham Mendez looks at how grassroots organisations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research, centred on Nicaragua.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Méndez, Jennifer Bickham (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Just us and our worms": the working and unemployed women's movement, "María Elena Cuadra"
  • Oppositional politics in Nicaragua and the formation of MEC
  • Gendering power and resistance in an era of globalization
  • "Autonomous but organized": MEC's search for an organizational structure
  • "Rompiendo esquemas": MEC's political strategies and the free trade zone
  • MEC and the postsocialist state: democracy, rights, and citizenship under globalization
  • Resistance goes global: power and opposition in an age of globalization.