Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Subtitle: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship
By: edited by Nathalie Lebon and Elizabeth Maier ; foreword by Sonia E. Alvarez.
Contributors: Lebon, Nathalie.; Maier, Elizabeth.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780813547282; 9780813547299
Subjects: Women in politics -- Latin America; Women in politics -- Caribbean Area; Feminism -- Latin America; Feminism -- Caribbean Area; Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions; Women -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions
Description: Brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book with the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.