Rereading women in Latin America and the Caribbean : the political economy of gender /
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002. |
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| Description: | xi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latin American perspectives in the classroom |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4670391 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Introduction / Ronald H. Chilcote
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theory, Themes, and the Realities of Gender in Latin America / Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens
- Pt. I. Women, Work, and Development
- 1. Introduction to Part I
- Selection from "Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions" / Eleanor Leacock
- Selection from "Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women in the Informal Sector" / Tamar Diana Wilson
- 2. Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination / Helen I. Safa
- 3. The Urban Family and Poverty in Latin America / Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha
- 4. The Myth of Being "Like a Daughter" / Grace Esther Young
- 5. Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment / Lynn Stephen
- 6. Caribbean Transnationalism As a Gendered Process / Christine G. T. Ho
- Pt. II. Politics, Policies, and the State
- 7. Introduction to Part II
- Selection from "Mobilizing Women: Revolution in the Revolution" / Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
- Selection from "Gender Equality in the Salvadoran Transition" / Ilja A. Luciak
- 8. Chilean Women's Organizations and Their Potential for Change / Rosa M. Canadell
- 9. El Comite de Amas de Casa de Siglo XX: An Organizational Experience of Bolivian Women / Moema Viezzer
- 10. The Mother of the Nicaraguans: Dona Violeta and the UNO's Gender Agenda / Karen Kampwirth
- 11. Constructing and Negotiating Gender in Women's Police Stations in Brazil / Sara Nelson
- 12. Reading between the Lines: Women, the State, and Rectification in Cuba / Sheryl L. Lutjens
- 13. Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women's Power and Autonomy in San Pedro, Chenalho, Chiapas (1980-1998) / Christine E. Eber
- Pt. III. Culture, History, and Feminisms
- 14. Introduction to Part III
- Selection from "Women, Class, and Education in Mexico, 1880-1928" / Mary K. Vaughan
- Selection from "Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism" / Margaret Randall
- Selection from "If Truth be Told" / Jan Rus
- 15. Story without Words: Women and the Creation of a Mestizo People in Guayaquil, 1820-1835 / Camilla Townsend
- 16. Brazilian Women in Exile: The Quest for an Identity / Angela Xavier de Brito
- 17. Remembering the Dead: Latin American Women's "Testimonial" Discourse / Nancy Saporta Sternbach
- 18. Roger Sanchez's "Humor Erotico" and the Semana Comica: A Sexual Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua? / David Kunzle
- 19. Evita: The Globalization of a National Myth / Marta E. Savigliano
- Annotated Index of Articles on Women and Gender in Latin American Perspectives.
