Gender in Latin America

Gender impacts on every major social issue from rights to social policy, and from ethnicity to poverty. This work is a comprehensive overview of the subject, examining trends in gender over history until the present. The authors draw on a wide range of theoretial analyses in addition to their own field of work to illuminate the importance of diversity in gender in Latin America, as well as more traditionally held concepts of class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide and age and peer groups. ...