The Costa Rican women's movement : a reader /

"Thirty-four short contributions make this akin to a reference work, albeit one varying greatly in flavor, topic, and scholarliness, i.e., from group self-promotion to politico-legal endorsements to scholarly pieces. Among the scholarly topics: colonial women, 19th-century women, feminist organ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997]
Colección:Pitt Latin American series.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Temas:
Feminism > Costa Rica.
Women > Costa Rica > Economic conditions.
Women > Costa Rica > Social conditions.
Equality > Costa Rica.
Sex discrimination against women > Costa Rica.
Féminisme > Costa Rica.
Femmes > Costa Rica > Conditions sociales.
Égalité (Sociologie) > Costa Rica.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Costa Rica.
Femmes > Costa Rica > Conditions économiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Feminismo > Costa Rica
Mujeres > Costa Rica > Situación social
Equality
Feminism
Sex discrimination against women
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Frauenbewegung
Vrouwenbeweging.
Costa Rica
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Different times, women, visions: the deep roots of Costa Rican feminism / Yadira Calvo Fajardo
  • The group Ventana: an assessment / Rosalía Camacho, Alda Facio Montejo, and Ligia Martín
  • Improving the quality of women's daily lives: Costa Rica's Centro Feminista de Información y Acción / Ana Carcedo, Montserrat Sagot, and Marta Trejos
  • The Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses, a popular movement: an impassioned plea for action-oriented feminism / Ana Hernández
  • Women's liberation from servitude and overprotection / Carmen Naranjo Coto
  • Women in colonial Costa Rica: a significant presence / Cora Ferro Calabrese and Ana María Quirós Rojas
  • Contradictory aspects of Costa Rican women's history during the nineteenth century / Clotilde Obregón Quesada
  • The suffragist movement in Costa Rica, 1889-1949: centennial of democracy? / Sara Sharratt.
  • Unusual Costa Rican women: three who were proclaimed "distinguished citizens of the nation" / Ana Isabel Gamboa Hernández and Sara Gurfinkiel Hermann
  • Peasant women's autobiographies: women's double contribution to the rural economy / Zaira Escamilla Gutiérrez and Lorena Vargas Mora
  • The law and women's lives: contradictions and struggles / Tatiana Soto Cabrera
  • Negotiating women's legal equality: four versions of a law / Aixa Ansorena Montero
  • Leading arguments against women's legal equality: highlights of a national debate / Ana Elena Badilla Gómez
  • Redefining political equality: more than including women / Alda Facio Montejo
  • Women heads of household in Costa Rica's Limón Province: the effects of class modified by race and gender / Eugenia Loṕez-Casas
  • The lesbian feminist group Las Entendidas / Paquita Cruz
  • Women with disabilities: between sexism and handicappism / Paula Antezana Rimassa.
  • Never to cry alone again: women and violence in Costa Rica / Ana Carcedo
  • Father-daughter incest: case studies in Costa Rica / Gioconda Batres Méndez
  • Peace Corps volunteers see working-class women's realities / Jessica Brown [and others]
  • Women as leaders in the Costa Rican cooperative movement / Mireya Jiménez Guerra
  • The struggle for housing in Costa Rica: the transformation of women into political actors / Montserrat Sagot
  • Long-term survival of a Costa Rican women's crafts cooperative: approaches to problems of rapid growth at CASEM in the Santa Elena-Monteverde region / Ilse Abshagen Leitinger
  • Reconceptualizing the theory of women in organizations: contributions of feminist analysis / Laura Guzmán Stein
  • Feminist visions: four women artists in Costa Rica / Sally R. Felton
  • Women and love: myths and stereotypes in popular songs broadcast in Costa Rica / Sandra Castro Paniagua and Luisa Gonçalves.
  • Yadira Calvo: Costa Rican feminist writer par excellence / Sonia de la Cruz Malavassi
  • From CIEM to IEM: the consolidation of women's studies at the Universidad Nacional / Cora Ferro Calabrese
  • Gender studies at the Universidad de Costa Rica / Laura Guzmán Stein
  • CSUCA's approach to women's studies and its projected program in Central America / Helga Jiménez
  • Timely, relevant, trustworthy, precise, ongoing: toward a gender-in-development information network / Mafalda Sibille Martina
  • Women's presence in the university: the case of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia / Matilda López Núñez
  • Problems of joint interdisciplinary research in women's studies: an effort to integrate disciplines for more fruitful analysis / Margarita Brenes Fonseca, May Brenes Marín, and Sandra Castro Paniagua
  • The predictability of cesarean-section births: a case study of students in Costa Rican childbirth classes / Jennifer Kozlow-Rodríguez.

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