Gendered paradoxes : women's movements, state restructuring, and global development in Ecuador /

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Since the early 1980s, Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups. Gendered Para...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lind, Amy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subjects:
Since 1984
Women in development > Ecuador.
Women > Political activity > Ecuador.
Feminism > Ecuador.
Indian women > Ecuador.
Poor women > Ecuador.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Ecuador.
Femmes pauvres > Équateur.
Féminisme > Équateur.
Ajustement structurel (Économie) > Équateur.
Femmes > Activité politique > Équateur.
Femmes dans le développement > Équateur.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Équateur.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Comparative Politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics
Feminism
Indian women
Politics and government
Poor women
Social policy
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Women in development
Women > Political activity
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ecuador > Social policy.
Ecuador > Politics and government > 1984-
Équateur > Politique et gouvernement > 1984-
Ecuador
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Table of Contents:
  • Myths of progress : citizenship, and modernization and women's rights struggles in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian neoliberalisms and gender politics in context
  • Neoliberal encounters : state restructuring and the institutionalization of women's struggles for survival
  • Women's community organizing in Quito : the paradoxes of survival and struggle
  • Remaking the nation : feminist politics, populist nationalism, and the 1998 constitutional reforms
  • Making dollars, making feminist sense of neoliberalism : negotiations, paradoxes, futures.

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