Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.

by Westwood; SALLIE

• ISBN13: 9780415073134
• ISBN10: 0415073138
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-01-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Vivaexplores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of 'the nation'.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Gender, Racism and the Politics of Identities in Latin America	p. 1
The Seeking of Truth and the Gendering of Consciousness: The Comadres of El Salvador and the Conavigua Widows of Guatemala	p. 30
Ecologia: Women, Environment and Politics in Venezuela	p. 65
'We Learned to Think Politically': The Influence of the Catholic Church and the Feminist Movement on the Emergence of the Health Movement of the Jardim Nordeste Area in Sao Paulo, Brazil	p. 88
Women's Political Participation in Colonias Populares in Guadalajara, Mexico	p. 112
Female Consciousness Or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil	p. 136
Touching the Air: The Cultural Force of Women in Chile	p. 156
Adjustment from Below: Low-Income Women, Time and the Triple Role in Guayaquil, Ecuador	p. 173
'People Have to Rise Up - Like the Great Women Fighters': The State and Peasant Women in Peru	p. 197
Notes	p. 219
References	p. 235
Index	p. 258
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