Women and social movements in Latin America
Subtitle: power from below
By: Lynn Stephen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Women in development -- Latin America -- Case studies; Social movements -- Latin America -- Case studies; Feminism -- Latin America -- Case studies; Women's rights -- Latin America -- Case studies; Women -- Latin America -- Interviews
Description: This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences.

She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-318) and index.