AMY LIND is Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Faculty Affiliate of Planning and Latin American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the editor of a volume in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide, the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring and Global Development in Ecuador (2005), and has published additional articles and book chapters on women's movements, transnational feminisms, and sexual politics in the Americas.