The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780367319588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 271 str.

Jane Jaquette

Opis

For those interested in democratic transition and consolidation, social movements, and gender politics, this volume is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing analysis available of how women's groups are helping to reshape Latin America. The contributors document and assess the remarkable wave of women's political participation in Latin Ame

Spis treści

From Transition to Participation - Women's Movements and Democratic Politics, Jane S. Jaquette; The (Trans)formation of Feminism(s) and Gender Politics in Democratizing Brazil, Sonia E. Alvarez; From Dictatorship to Democracy - The Women's Movement in Chile, Patricia M. Chuchryk; Women and Democracy in Argentina, Maria del Carmen Feijoo; The Uses of Conservatism - Women's Democratic Politics in Uruguay, Carina Perelli; The Difficult Equilibrium Between Bread and Roses - Women's Organizations and Democracy in Peru, Maruja Barrig; Feminism, Revolution and Democratic Transitions in Nicaragua, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla; Women's Movements, Feminism and Mexican Politics, Carmen Ramos Escandon; Women's Political Participation - The Prospects for Democracy, Jane S. Jaquette.

O autorze

Jane S. Jaquette is professor of politics and chair of the Diplomacy and World Affairs Department at Occidental College, Los Angeles.