Women and Social Movements in Latin America
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Lynn Stephen
About this book
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care.
This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1 - PART I EL SALVADOR
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CHAPTER 2 Women's Rights Are Human Rights
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CHAPTER 3 Women for Dignity and Life
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INTERVIEW Women for Dignity and Life
85 - PART II MEXICO
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CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Urban Survival
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INTERVIEW Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP
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CHAPTER 5 The Unintended Consequences of "Traditional" Women's Organizing
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INTERVIEW Lázaro Cárdenas Ejido Union
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CHAPTER 6 Class, Gender, and Autonomy
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INTERVIEW Rural Women Workers7 Movement
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CHAPTER 7 Sweet and Sour Grapes
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INTERVIEW Interindustry Union of Seasonal and Permanent Workers of Santa María
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CHAPTER 8 Conclusions
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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