Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.

ISBN-13: 9780415073134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str.

S. Radcliffe;Radcliffe Sarah; Sarah A. Radcliffe

Opis

Latin America has seen revolutionary governments, authoritarian dictatorships and reformist military administrations; the region has also seen powerful grassroots movements demanding social and political change. Through their active involvement women are seen for the first time as integral to the process of democratization. Yet these women are not a simple unity with shared aims; class and ethnicity create division.

Recenzje

`The authors are to be congratulated on compiling a book that does not present a sterotypical image of popular protest: there is a balanced mix of forms of protest political and popular - and a diversity of sites, urban and rural. This is not a book which aims to challenge our understanding and analysis of women's involvement in building and transforming the societies of Latin America. Racliffe and Westwood have successfully created an original piece of work that fills a niche, and its structure and content should encourage others to consider what are the forms of female protest.' - Ecumene

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Gender, Racism and the Politics of Identities in Latin America, Sallie Westwood, Sarah A. Radcliffe; Chapter 2 The Seeking of Truth and the Gendering of Consciousness, Jennifer Schirmer; Chapter 3 Ecologia, María-Pilar García Guadilla; Chapter 4 ‘We Learned to Think Politically’, Leda Maria Vieira Machado; Chapter 5 Women’s Political Participation in Colonias Populares In Guadalajara, Mexico, Nikki Craske; Chapter 6 Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes; Chapter 7 Touching the Air, Catherine M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Adjustment from Below, Caroline O. N. Moser; Chapter 9 ‘People Have to Rise Up – Like the Great Women Fighters’, Sarah A. Radcliffe;