Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780333786772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 244 str.

Maxine Molyneux

Opis

Until now, the analysis of gender and political inequality, and of the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging re-evaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analyzing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian, and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements, and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and women's movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.

Recenzje

This is an important book about big concepts-political interests, social activism in authoritarian states, revolution, and democracy. Choice

Spis treści

Introduction No God, No Boss, No Husband! Anarchist Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Argentina Mobilisation without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State and Revolution in Nicaragua The Politics of Abortion in Nicaragua: Revolutionary Pragmatism or Feminism in the Realm of Necessity? State, Gender and Institutional Change: The Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas State Socialism and Women's Emancipation: A Continuing Retrospective Analysing Women's Movements Gender and Citizenship in Latin America: Historical and Contemporary Issues Bibliography Index

O autorze

Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of the Americas at University College London, UK.