Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship / edited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon ; foreword by Sonia E. Alvarez.

Other author Maier, Elizabeth.
Other author Lebon, Nathalie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ; Tijuana, Mexico : El Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C.,
Descriptionxxii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
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.

Contents 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009020399
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