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

• ISBN13: 9780742510746
• ISBN10: 0742510743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theory, Themes, and the Realities of Gender in Latin America	p. 1
Women, Work, and Development
Introduction to Part I	p. 19
Selection from "Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions"	p. 20
Selection from "Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women in the Informal Sector"	p. 29
Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination	p. 43
The Urban Family and Poverty in Latin America	p. 61
The Myth of Being "Like a Daughter"	p. 78
Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment	p. 91
Caribbean Transnationalism As a Gendered Process	p. 112
Politics, Policies, and the State
Introduction to Part II	p. 131
Selection from "Mobilizing Women: Revolution in the Revolution"	p. 132
Selection from "Gender Equality in the Salvadoran Transition"	p. 142
Chilean Women's Organizations and Their Potential for Change	p. 157
El Comite de Amas de Casa de Siglo XX: An Organizational Experience of Bolivian Women	p. 172
The Mother of the Nicaraguans: Dona Violeta and the UNO's Gender Agenda	p. 179
Constructing and Negotiating Gender in Women's Police Stations in Brazil	p. 197
Reading between the Lines: Women, the State, and Rectification in Cuba	p. 213
Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San Pedro, Chenalho, Chiapas (1980-1998)	p. 231
Culture, History, and Feminisms
Introduction to Part III	p. 249
Selection from "Women, Class, and Education in Mexico, 1880-1928"	p. 251
Selection from "Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism"	p. 261
Selection from "If Truth be Told"	p. 264
Story without Words: Women and the Creation of a Mestizo People in Guayaquil, 1820-1835	p. 278
Brazilian Women in Exile: The Quest for an Identity	p. 294
Remembering the Dead: Latin American Women's "Testimonial" Discourse	p. 311
Roger Sanchez's "Humor Erotico" and the Semana Comica: A Sexual Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua?	p. 323
Evita: The Globalization of a National Myth	p. 344
Annotated Index of Articles on Women and Gender in Latin American Perspectives	p. 361
Index	p. 375
About the Contributors	p. 389
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