In "Myths of Modernity," Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua's transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country's capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and labor exploitation that impeded rather than promoted capitalist development. Dore places gender at the forefront of her analysis, which demonstrates that patriarchy was the organizing principle of the coffee economy's debt-peonage system until the 1950s. She examines the gendered dynamics of daily...
In "Myths of Modernity," Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua's transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country's capitalist transfor...
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Locating watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organized power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making, Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America remedies the lack of such considerations in previous studies of state formation. Along these lines, the book begins with two theoretical chapters by the editors, Elizabeth Dore and...
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of th...
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Locating watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organized power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making, Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America remedies the lack of such considerations in previous studies of state formation. Along these lines, the book begins with two theoretical chapters by the editors, Elizabeth Dore and...
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of th...
Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens who describe living in an environment where vast economic inequality has destroyed the very things that used to give meaning to Cubans' lives.
Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens who describe living in an environmen...
Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens who describe living in an environment where vast economic inequality has destroyed the very things that used to give meaning to Cubans' lives.
Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens who describe living in an environmen...
