Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Subtitle: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship
Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon.
Foreword by Sonia E. Alvarez
Subject: Latin American Studies, Women's Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4729-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4728-2
Pages: 384 pages
Publication Date: May 2010

Awards:

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2010

Praise for Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions, leaders, and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."
— Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America
 

Women’s Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean 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 within 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.l.

ELIZABETH MAIER is a professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef) in Mexico and former chair of the Gender and Feminist Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

NATHALIE LEBON is an anthropologist and assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Gettysburg College, affiliated with the Latin American Studies Program.