Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean The Political Economy of Gender

, by Abbassi, Jennifer; Lutjens, Sheryl L.; de Brito, Angela Nieves-Xavier; Cañadell, Rosa M.; Chinchilla, Norma; Eber, Christine E.; T. Ho, Christine G.; Kampwirth, Karen; Kunzle, David; Leacock, Eleanor; Nelson, Sara; Safa, Helen I.; Savigliano, Marta E.; St

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ISBN: 9780742510753 | 0742510751
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Copyright: 3/26/2002

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This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects

Series Introduction

Ronald H. Chilcote

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theory, Themes, and the Realities of Gender in Latin America

(18)

Jennifer Abbassi

Sheryl L. Lutjens

Part I: Women, Work, and Development

Introduction to Part I

(24)

Selection from ``Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions,''

(9)

Eleanor Leacock

Selection from ``Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women in the Informal Sector,''

(14)

Tamar Diana Wilson

Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination

(18)

Helen I. Safa

The Urban Family and Poverty in Latin America

(17)

Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha

The Myth of Being ``Like a Daughter''

(13)

Grace Esther Young

Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment

(21)

Lynn Stephen

Caribbean Transnationalism As a Gendered Process

112

(19)

Christine G. T. Ho

Part II: Politics, Policies, and the State

Introduction to Part II

131

(26)

Selection from ``Mobilizing Women: Revolution in the Revolution,''

132

(10)

Norma Stoltz Chinchilla

Selection from ``Gender Equality in the Salvadoran Transition,''

142

(15)

Ilja A. Luciak

Chilean Women's Organizations and Their Potential for Change

157

(15)

Rosa M. Canadell

El Comite de Amas de Casa de Siglo XX: An Organizational Experience of Bolivian Women

172

(7)

Moema Viezzer

The Mother of the Nicaraguans: Dona Violeta and the UNO's Gender Agenda

179

(18)

Karen Kampwirth

Constructing and Negotiating Gender in Women's Police Stations in Brazil

197

(16)

Sara Nelson

Reading between the Lines: Women, the State, and Rectification in Cuba

213

(18)

Sheryl L. Lutjens

Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San Pedro, Chenalho, Chiapas (1980-1998)

231

(18)

Christine E. Eber

Part III: Culture, History, and Feminisms

Introduction to Part III

249

(29)

Selection from ``Women, Class, and Education in Mexico, 1880-1928,''

251

(10)

Mary K. Vaughan

Selection from ``Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism,''

261

(3)

Margaret Randall

Selection from ``If Truth Be Told,''

264

(14)

Jan Rus

Story without Words: Women and the Creation of a Mestizo People in Guayaquil, 1820-1835

278

(16)

Camilla Townsend

Brazilian Women in Exile: The Quest for an Identity

294

(17)

Angela Xavier de Brito

Remembering the Dead: Latin American Women's ``Testimonial'' Discourse

311

(12)

Nancy Saporta Sternbach

Roger Sanchez's ``Humor Erotico'' and the Semana Comica: A Sexual Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua?

323

(21)

David Kunzle

Evita: The Globalization of a National Myth

344

(17)

Marta E. Savigliano

Annotated Index of Articles on Women and Gender in Latin American Perspectives

361

(14)

Index

375

(14)

About the Contributors

389

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean The Political Economy of Gender

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