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Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UCSC:32106013710410
Dated May 1988
Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Women and Development Unit
Publisher : Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038920503
Dated September 1992
Author : Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813547282
"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions. leaders and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."---Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America --
Author : Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309805
This volume represents more than just a collection of chapters and bibliographic sources. For us, it provides another example of collective solidarity, hard work, and a relentless commitment to contribute to the process of advancing and transforming knowledge about women's condition. It attempts to update and assess how scholarship on women has impacted different disciplines and fields and examines the multivariate conditions and responses to immediate and long-term realities generated by women from different LatinAmerican and Caribbean countries. The editors hope that this publication, modest as it may be, will be a useful tool to other researchers, educators, and students in their efforts at pursuing and expanding the knowledge and visions that will make our different societies more just and liberating for all their citizens.
Author : Marysa Navarro,Virginia Sánchez Korrol,Kecia Ali
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025321307X
" Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.
Author : Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510751
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives--a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, this collection of timely, empirical studies promotes critical thinking about women's place and power; about theory and research strategies; and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Valuable as both a supplementary or primary text, Rereading Women makes a convincing claim for a materialist feminist analysis. It convincingly shows why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledges their gains and struggles over time, and explores the contributions that feminist theory has made toward the recognition of gender as a relevant--indeed essential--category for analyzing the political economy of development.
Author : Inés M. Pousadela,Simone R. Bohn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031391828
This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the existing literature. It brings together case studies of nine countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru – and includes a comparative analysis of the overall evolution of women’s rights movements across the region during the past decades. This analysis shows Latin America as the home to the largest, strongest, and most densely regionally and globally interconnected women’s rights movements in the Global South. Each chapter in this volume seeks to understand where the struggles for women’s rights come from, how they stand today and where they are headed to. To do so, they all use qualitative methodologies, and most resort to first-hand accounts of the processes described and reflections by the actors on their own experiences, collected through surveys, in-depth interviews and/or ethnographic observations. The comparative analysis of the different national case studies reveals the main struggles in which women’s rights movements are currently involved in Latin America and the Caribbean: the quest for political representation within the State and its political institutions; the fight against gender violence and the struggle for sexual and reproductive rights – especially abortion rights. Women’s Rights in Movement: Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean will be a valuable resource for researchers, activists and policy makers interested in the struggles for women’s rights not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but in different parts of the world. It will be of special interest to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and other social scientists working in interdisciplinary fields such as gender and social movements studies.
Author : Geertje A. Nijeholt,Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135629939
The triangle of empowerment is how this volume's editors describe the three sets of actors involved in women's collective struggles in the political arena: the women's movement, feminist politicians, and feminist civil servants. Original case studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean analyze the political struggles women are waging to make their voices heard and to place women's issues on the agenda in different societies.
Author : Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0896087093
Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries. Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Author : World Bank,Banque mondiale
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 9780821397701
For the last decade, economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has sharply accelerated, pushing poverty and inequality to historic lows in the most unequal region in the world. In 2012, as the world\2019s ongoing economic problems make optimistic predictions less certain and threaten to undermine gains against poverty and inequality, it is critical to understand the structural forces that have promoted recent positive social outcomes. This report explores how women in the region have played a critical role in achieving the poverty declines of the last decade, with their labor market participation rates growing 15 percent from 2000 to 2010. It further considers how future progress will require increased female economic power and more effective policies to promote it. If female labor income had remained the same during this period, holding all else constant, extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean would have been 30 percent higher in 2010. In other words, 17.7 percent of the population in the region would have been below the extreme poverty rate, compared to the actual 14.6 percent. The report suggests focusing public policy on three priorities: expanding female labor market opportunities; improving female agency which - while important in its own right - has important potential benefits for equality of economic opportunities and assets, and supporting the growing number of poor single female-headed households. Along with these suggested policy priorities, strong monitoring and evaluation systems should be included to every extent possible.
Author : Luis Alberto Moreno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1597821403
Author : Ricardo Paes de Barros,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Jose R Molinas Vega,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821377468
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person s life chances. Success in life should depend on people s choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge inequality of opportunities in access to basic services for children, learning achievement for youth, and income and consumption for adults.
Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1780349254
This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century.
Author : Lucille Mathurin Mair,Centre for Women's Development Studies (New Delhi, India)
Publisher : New Delhi : Centre for Women's Development Studies
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
ISBN : UVA:X001057135
Author : Shahid Javed Burki,Guillermo Perry
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821339850
"Detailed discussion of reforms necessary to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty in the region. Reforms include equity market development, civil service reform, in health and education investment, labor market liberalization, and greater trade openness"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.