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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.

Maier, Elizabeth. (Added Author). Lebon, Nathalie. (Added Author).

Summary:

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 with 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 womens transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0813547288 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813547282 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813547296 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813547299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxii, 375 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ; [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Col©đn 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 N©ł©ðe©z 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 / Mar©Ua Luisa Tarr©♭s -- 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 Cat©đlicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Marysa Navarro and Mar©Ua Consuelo Mej©Ua -- 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.