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: 9780742510753
• ISBN10: 0742510751
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-26
• 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	ix
Ronald H. Chilcote
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Theory, Themes, and the Realities of Gender in Latin America	1	(18)
Jennifer Abbassi
Sheryl L. Lutjens
Part I: Women, Work, and Development
Introduction to Part I	19	(24)
Selection from ``Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions,''	20	(9)
Eleanor Leacock
Selection from ``Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women in the Informal Sector,''	29	(14)
Tamar Diana Wilson
Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination	43	(18)
Helen I. Safa
The Urban Family and Poverty in Latin America	61	(17)
Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha
The Myth of Being ``Like a Daughter''	78	(13)
Grace Esther Young
Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment	91	(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