4 Women’s Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. List of acronyms xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Myths of Progress: Citizenship, Modernization, and Women’s Rights Struggles in Ecuador 23
7. 2 Ecuadorian Neoliberalisms and Gender Politics in Context 53
8. 3 Neoliberal Encounters: State Restructuring and the Institutionalization of Women’s Struggles for Survival 69
9. 4 Women’s Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle 93
10. 5 Remaking the Nation: Feminist Politics, Populist Nationalism, and the 1998 Constitutional Reforms 113
11. 6 Making Dollars, Making Feminist Sense of Neoliberalism: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Futures 135
12. Appendix: Chronology of Events 153
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 155
14. INDEX 179