TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvarez,Sonia
AU  - Alvarez,Sonia E.
AU  - Caldwell,Kia Lilly
AU  - Carrillo,Ana
AU  - Carrillo,Ana Lorena
AU  - Chinchilla,Norma
AU  - Chinchilla,Norma Stoltz
AU  - Col=n,Alice
AU  - Colón,Alice
AU  - Cominao,Clorinda
AU  - Espina,Gioconda
AU  - Flores,Alejandra
AU  - Herrera,Morena
AU  - Kampwirth,Karen
AU  - Lebon,Nathalie
AU  - Macaulay,Fiona
AU  - Maier,Elizabeth
AU  - Maldonado,Gina
AU  - Marco,Graciela Di
AU  - Marco,Graciela Di
AU  - Mejia,Maria
AU  - Mejía,María Consuelo
AU  - Merlet,Myriam
AU  - Mogrovejo,Norma
AU  - Navarro,Marysa
AU  - Peque±o,Andrea
AU  - Pequeño,Andrea
AU  - Poggio,Sara
AU  - Prieto,Mercedes
AU  - Rakowski,Cathy
AU  - Rakowski,Cathy A.
AU  - Safa,Helen
AU  - Sagot,Montserrat
AU  - Sarmiento,Marta
AU  - Sarmiento,Marta Núñez
AU  - TarrTs,Maria
AU  - Tarrés,María Luisa
AU  - Vargas,Virginia
TI  - Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship 
SN  - 9780813547282
U1  - 320.98082 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; Part I. Setting the Stage --; Introduction --; 1. Accommodating the Private into the Public Domain: Experiences and Legacies of the Past Four Decades --; Part II. Women, Work, and Families: The Structural Context of Globalization --; 2. Women's Work and Neoliberal Globalization: Implications for Gender Equity --; 3. Female-Headed Households and Poverty in Latin America: A Comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic --; 4. A "Top-Down"-"Bottom-Up" Model: Four Decades of Women's Employment and Gender Ideology in Cuba --; Part III. Women's Agency for Plural Democracy and Full Citizenship --; 5. The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Speak --; 6. Gender Politics in Nicaragua: Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Return of Daniel Ortega --; 7. Haiti: Women in Conquest of Full and Total Citizenship in an Endless Transition --; 8. From Urban Elite to Peasant Organizing: Agendas, Accomplishments, and Challenges of Thirty-plus Years of Guatemalan Feminism, 1975-2007 --; Part IV. Broadening the Circle of Women's Activism: New Meanings from Intersecting Oppressions --; 9. Women's Movements in Argentina: Tensions and Articulations --; 10. Advocating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Black Women Activists in Brazil --; 11. Itineraries of Latin American Lesbian Insubordination --; 12. Respect, Discrimination, and Violence: Indigenous Women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 --; Part V. Shaping Public Policy with a Gender Perspective --; 13. Peace Begins at Home: Women's Struggles against Violence and State Actions in Costa Rica --; 14. New Challenges in Feminist Practice: The Women's Institutes in Mexico --; 15. Women's Struggles for Rights in Venezuela: Opportunities and Challenges --; 16. Trickling Up, Down, and Sideways: Gender Policy and Political Opportunity in Brazil --; Part VI. The Politics of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global Feminist Agency --; 17. From Insurgency to Feminist Struggle: The Search for Social Justice, Democracy, and Equality between Women and Men --; 18. The Latin American Network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir --; 19. Constructing New Democratic Paradigms for Global Democracy: The Contribution of Feminisms --; Part VII. Concluding Considerations --; 20. Concluding Reflections: Renegotiating Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean 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 within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813549514
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813549514
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