TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maier,Elizabeth
AU  - Lebon,Nathalie
TI  - Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship 
SN  - 9780813547282 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ 1236.5 W872 2010
U1  - 320.98082 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J., Tijuana, Mexico
PB  - Rutgers University Press, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C.
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Mujeres
KW  - Actividad política
KW  - America Latina
KW  - Caribe (Región)
KW  - Feminismo
KW  - América Latina
KW  - Condiciones sociales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 Colon 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 Nuñez 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; Maria Luisa Tarrâes --; 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 Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir; Marysa Navarro and Maria Consuelo Mejia --; 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
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