Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean : engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship /

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Brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maier, Elizabeth (Editor ), Lebon, Nathalie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Tijuana, Mexico : Rutgers University Press ; El Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C., ©2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Women > Political activity > Latin America.
Women > Political activity > Caribbean Area.
Feminism > Latin America.
Feminism > Caribbean Area.
Women > Latin America > Social conditions.
Women > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Political activists > Latin America.
Political activists > Caribbean Area.
Femmes > Activité politique > Amérique latine.
Femmes > Activité politique > Caraïbes (Région)
Féminisme > Amérique latine.
Féminisme > Caraïbes (Région)
Femmes > Amérique latine > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Caraïbes (Région) > Conditions sociales.
Activistes > Amérique latine.
Activistes > Caraïbes (Région)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Feminism
Political activists
Women > Political activity
Women > Social conditions
Caribbean Area
Latin America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Women building plural democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean / Nathalie Lebon
  • Accommodating the private into the public domain : experiences and legacies of the past four decades / Elizabeth Maier
  • Women's work and neoliberal globalization : implications for gender equality / Alice Colón and Sara Poggio
  • Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic / Helen Safa
  • A "top-down"
  • "bottom-up" model : four decades of women's employment and gender ideology in Cuba / Marta Núñez Sarmiento
  • The mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo speak / interviews by Graciela di Marco
  • Gender politics in Nicaragua : feminism, antifeminism, and the return of Daniel Ortega / Karen Kampwirth
  • Haiti : women in conquest of full and total citizenship in an endless transition / Myriam Merlet
  • From urban elite to peasant organizing : agendas, accomplishments, and challenges of thirty-plus years of Guatemalan feminism / Ana Lorena Carrillo and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
  • Women's movements in Argentina : tensions and articulations / Graciela di Marco
  • Advocating for citizenship and social justice : black women activists in Brazil / Kia Lilly Caldwell
  • Itineraries of Latin American lesbian insobordination / Norma Mogrovejo
  • Respect, discrimination, and violence : Indigenous women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 / Mercedes Prieto [and others]
  • Peace begins at home : women's struggles against violence and state actions in Costa Rica / Montserrat Sagot
  • New challenges in feminist practice : the women's institutes in Mexico / María Luisa Tarrés
  • Women's struggles for rights in Venezuela : opportunities and challenges / Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina
  • Trickling up, down, and sideways : gender policy and political opportunity in Brazil / Fiona Macaulay
  • From insurgency to feminist struggle : the search for social justice, democracy, and equality between women and men / Morena Herrera
  • The Latin American network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Marysa Navarro and María Consuelo Mejía
  • Constructing new democratic paradigms for global democracy : the contribution of feminisms / Virginia Vargas
  • Concluding reflections : renegotiating gender in Latin America and the Carribean / Elizabeth Maier.

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