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.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Tijuana, Mexico : Rutgers University Press ; El Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C., c2010.
- xxii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women building plural democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean / Accommodating the private into the public domain : experiences and legacies of the past four decades / Women's work and neoliberal globalization : implications for gender equality / Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic / A "top-down"--"bottom-up" model : four decades of women's employment and gender ideology in Cuba / The mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo speak / Gender politics in Nicaragua : feminism, antifeminism, and the return of Daniel Ortega / Haiti : women in conquest of full and total citizenship in an endless transition / From urban elite to peasant organizing : agendas, accomplishments, and challenges of thirty-plus years of Guatemalan feminism / Women's movements in Argentina : tensions and articulations / Advocating for citizenship and social justice : black women activists in Brazil / Itineraries of Latin American lesbian insobordination / Respect, discrimination, and violence : indigenous women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 / Peace begins at home : women's struggles against violence and state actions in Costa Rica / New challenges in feminist practice : the women's institutes in Mexico / Women's struggles for rights in Venezuela : opportunities and challenges / Trickling up, down, and sideways : gender policy and political opportunity in Brazil / From insurgency to feminist struggle : the search for social justice, democracy, and equality between women and men / The Latin American network of Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Constructing new democratic paradigms for global democracy : the contribution of feminisms / Concluding reflections : renegotiating gender in Latin America and the Carribean / Nathalie Lebon -- Elizabeth Maier -- Alice Colon and Sara Poggio -- Helen Safa -- Marta Nuñez Sarmiento -- interviews by Graciela di Marco -- Karen Kampwirth -- Myriam Merlet -- Ana Lorena Carrillo and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla -- Graciela di Marco -- Kia Lilly Caldwell -- Norma Mogrovejo -- Mercedes Prieto ... [et al.] -- Montserrat Sagot -- Maria Luisa Tarrâes -- Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina -- Fiona Macaulay -- Morena Herrera -- Marysa Navarro and Maria Consuelo Mejia -- Virginia Vargas -- Elizabeth Maier. Introduction: