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050 00 $aHQ1236.5.L37$bW665 2010
082 00 $a320.98082$222
245 00 $aWomen's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean :$bengendering social justice, democratizing citizenship /$cedited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon ; foreword by Sonia E. Alvarez.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press ;$aTijuana, Mexico :$bEl Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C.,$cc2010.
300 $axxii, 375 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction:$tWomen building plural democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean /$rNathalie Lebon --$tAccommodating the private into the public domain : experiences and legacies of the past four decades /$rElizabeth Maier --$tWomen's work and neoliberal globalization : implications for gender equality /$rAlice Colón and Sara Poggio --$tFemale-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic /$rHelen Safa --$tA "top-down"--"bottom-up" model : four decades of women's employment and gender ideology in Cuba /$rMarta Núñez Sarmiento --$tThe mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo speak /$rinterviews by Graciela di Marco --$tGender politics in Nicaragua : feminism, antifeminism, and the return of Daniel Ortega /$rKaren Kampwirth --$tHaiti : women in conquest of full and total citizenship in an endless transition /$rMyriam Merlet --$tFrom urban elite to peasant organizing : agendas, accomplishments, and challenges of thirty-plus years of Guatemalan feminism /$rAna Lorena Carrillo and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla --$tWomen's movements in Argentina : tensions and articulations /$rGraciela di Marco --$tAdvocating for citizenship and social justice : black women activists in Brazil /$rKia Lilly Caldwell --$tItineraries of Latin American lesbian insobordination /$rNorma Mogrovejo --$tRespect, discrimination, and violence : indigenous women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 /$rMercedes Prieto ... [et al.] --$tPeace begins at home : women's struggles against violence and state actions in Costa Rica /$rMontserrat Sagot --$tNew challenges in feminist practice : the women's institutes in Mexico /$rMaría Luisa Tarrés --$tWomen's struggles for rights in Venezuela : opportunities and challenges /$rCathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina --$tTrickling up, down, and sideways : gender policy and political opportunity in Brazil /$rFiona Macaulay --$tFrom insurgency to feminist struggle : the search for social justice, democracy, and equality between women and men /$rMorena Herrera --$tThe Latin American network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir /$rMarysa Navarro and María Consuelo Mejía --$tConstructing new democratic paradigms for global democracy : the contribution of feminisms /$rVirginia Vargas --$tConcluding reflections : renegotiating gender in Latin America and the Carribean /$rElizabeth Maier.
650 0 $aWomen$xPolitical activity$zLatin America.
650 0 $aWomen$xPolitical activity$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aFeminism$zLatin America.
650 0 $aFeminism$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aWomen$zLatin America$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen$zCaribbean Area$xSocial conditions.
700 1 $aMaier, Elizabeth.
700 1 $aLebon, Nathalie.