Through the Eyes of Women Gender, Social Networks, Family and Structural Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Menjivar, Cecilia

• ISBN13: 9780969870753
• ISBN10: 0969870752
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-04
• Publisher: de Sitter Publications

Summary

This volume examines the effects of neoliberal reforms on daily life in Latin America and the Caribbean, as seen through the eyes of women. The contributions in this volume situate women in their sociocultural milieus, so that women's perceptions and assessments are examined through a lens that includes the lives of other women, men and other members of the women's families, work settings, communities, and political and religious organizations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Questioning globalization : gender and export processing in the Dominican Republic	p. 11
Gender, work, and family in Cuba : the challenges of the special period	p. 32
Psychic and somatic vulnerability among professional women in Argentina as a result of the precarization of labor linked during the socioeconomic crisis	p. 61
Women and survival strategies in poor urban contexts : a case study from Guadalajara, Mexico	p. 84
Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica	p. 112
Households and income : ageing and gender inequalities in urban Brazil and Colombia	p. 152
Work, gender, and space : women's home-based work in Tijuana, Mexico	p. 172
Organizing a space of their own? : global/local processes in a Nicaraguan women's organization	p. 199
Making feminist sense of neoliberalism : the institutionalization of women's struggles for survival in Ecuador and Bolivia	p. 231
Competition and cooperation among working women in the context of structural adjustment : the case of street vendors in La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia	p. 262
About the authors	p. 289
Subject and author index	p. 293
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