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Women and Social Movements in Latin America : Power from Below / Lynn Stephen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292799899
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42/098
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240.5.L29 S74 1997
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- PART I EL SALVADOR -- CHAPTER 2 Women's Rights Are Human Rights -- CHAPTER 3 Women for Dignity and Life -- INTERVIEW Women for Dignity and Life -- PART II MEXICO -- CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Urban Survival -- INTERVIEW Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP -- CHAPTER 5 The Unintended Consequences of "Traditional" Women's Organizing -- INTERVIEW Lázaro Cárdenas Ejido Union -- PART III BRAZIL -- CHAPTER 6 Class, Gender, and Autonomy -- INTERVIEW Rural Women Workers7 Movement -- PART IV CHILE -- CHAPTER 7 Sweet and Sour Grapes -- INTERVIEW Interindustry Union of Seasonal and Permanent Workers of Santa María -- CHAPTER 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- PART I EL SALVADOR -- CHAPTER 2 Women's Rights Are Human Rights -- CHAPTER 3 Women for Dignity and Life -- INTERVIEW Women for Dignity and Life -- PART II MEXICO -- CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Urban Survival -- INTERVIEW Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP -- CHAPTER 5 The Unintended Consequences of "Traditional" Women's Organizing -- INTERVIEW Lázaro Cárdenas Ejido Union -- PART III BRAZIL -- CHAPTER 6 Class, Gender, and Autonomy -- INTERVIEW Rural Women Workers7 Movement -- PART IV CHILE -- CHAPTER 7 Sweet and Sour Grapes -- INTERVIEW Interindustry Union of Seasonal and Permanent Workers of Santa María -- CHAPTER 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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