Women And Politics In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510751

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens Pdf

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 : Geertje A. Nijeholt,Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135629939

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Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean by Geertje A. Nijeholt,Saskia Wieringa Pdf

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 : Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813547282

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Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon Pdf

"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 : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309805

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Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean by Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose Pdf

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 : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025321307X

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Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Marysa Navarro,Virginia Sánchez Korrol,Kecia Ali Pdf

" Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.

Author : Nikki Craske
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745666082

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Women and Politics in Latin America by Nikki Craske Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions and feminisms.

Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1780349254

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Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean by Kathryn A. Sloan Pdf

This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century.

Author : Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sex discrimination against women
ISBN : UIUC:30112116051308

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Gender Equality Plans in Latin America and the Caribbean by Alicia Bárcena Ibarra Pdf

Author : Melanie A. Medeiros,Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1978836333

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Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Melanie A. Medeiros,Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Pdf

"Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women's social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents the results of critical empirical research emphasizing Black women's innovating, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few single-authored books focused on Black women in Latin American in Caribbean in specific, the vast majority of the scholarship on Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been published as theses, dissertations, articles, and book chapters. This volume situates these social and political analyses as interrelated and dialogic and contributes a transnational perspective to contemporary conversations surrounding the continued relevance of Black women as a category of social science inquiry. When read together, the chapters offer a hemispheric framework for understanding the lasting legacies of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, plantation life, and persistent socio-economic and cultural violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Simone Bohn,Charmain Levy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228009832

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Twenty-First-Century Feminismos by Simone Bohn,Charmain Levy Pdf

The women’s movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, behaviours, laws, and policies through collective action and contention, radically altering the direction of society over time. Twenty-First-Century Feminismos examines ten case studies from eight different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to better understand the ways in which women’s and feminist movements react to, are shaped by, and advance social change. A closer look at women’s movements in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, and Uruguay uncovers broader recurrent patterns at the regional level, such as the persistence of certain grievances historically harboured by regional movements, the rise in prominence of varying claims, and the emergence of novel organizational structures, repertoires, and mobilization strategies. Dissimilarities among the cases are also brought to light, including the composition of these movements, their success in effecting policy change in specific areas, and the particular conditions that surround their mobilization and struggles. Twenty-First-Century Feminismos provides a compelling account of the important victories attained by Latin American and Caribbean organized women over the course of the last forty years, as well as the challenges they face in their quest for gender justice.

Author : Karen Marie Mokate
Publisher : IDB
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social planning
ISBN : 1931003947

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Women's Participation in Social Development by Karen Marie Mokate Pdf

Author : Tomáš Došek,Flavia Freidenberg,Mariana Caminotti,Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950096

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Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America by Tomáš Došek,Flavia Freidenberg,Mariana Caminotti,Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian Pdf

This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and outside institutions. Secondly, the book explores barriers in political reality, such as gender legislation implementation, public administration and international cooperation, and proposes solutions, supported by successful experiences, emphasising the nonlinearity of the implementation process. Thirdly, the authors highlight the role of women in politics at the subnational level. The book combines academic expertise in various disciplines with contributions from practitioners within national and international institutions to broaden the reader’s understanding of women in Latin American politics.

Author : Inés M. Pousadela,Simone R. Bohn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031391828

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Women’s Rights in Movement by Inés M. Pousadela,Simone R. Bohn Pdf

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 : Laura Chioda,Roberto Garcia Verdú
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821399620

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Work and Family by Laura Chioda,Roberto Garcia Verdú Pdf

Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the context of more general progress in women’s status. Female enrollment rates have increased at all levels of education, fertility rates have declined, and social norms have shifted toward gender equality. This report sheds light on the complex relationship between stages of economic development and female economic participation. It documents a shift in women’s perceptions whereby work has become a fundamental part of their identity, highlighting the distinction between jobs and careers. These dynamics are made more complex by the acknowledgment that individuals are part of larger economic units—families. As development progresses and the options available to women expand, the need to balance career and family takes greater importance. New tensions emerge, paradoxically made possible by decades of steady gains. Understanding the new challenges women face as they balance work and family is thus crucial for policy.

Author : Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0896087085

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Women Writing Resistance by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Pdf

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.