Feminism Transmissions and Retransmissions

With the goal of opening up dialogue and debate, Feminism presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development of the feminist movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regard to gender, and the nuances of disagreements among feminists. Here in English for the first time, this work offers invaluable insight into the theoretical and political tensions that have shaped Mexican feminism and the world at large.

Marta Lamas is a Professor in both the Gender Studies Program in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Department of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and one of the most influential feminists in Mexico. She is the author of five books and has contributed to nine edited collections. She is the director of the journal Debate Feminista and founded the organization Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) and Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir.

Prologue
1. From Protesting to Making Proposals: Scenes from a Feminist Process
2. Equality of Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Workplace
3. Gender: Some Theoretical and Conceptual Advances
4. Feminisms: Disagreements and Arguments