Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.

by Sarah A. Radcliffe, Dr Sallie Westwood, Sallie Westwood

Overview

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of ‘the nation'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415073134
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/07/1993
Series:	Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sarah A. Radcliffe is lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London., Sallie Westwood is senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Gender, Racism and the Politics of Identities in Latin America, Sallie Westwood, Sarah A. Radcliffe; Chapter 2 The Seeking of Truth and the Gendering of Consciousness, Jennifer Schirmer; Chapter 3 Ecologia, María-Pilar García Guadilla; Chapter 4 ‘We Learned to Think Politically’, Leda Maria Vieira Machado; Chapter 5 Women’s Political Participation in Colonias Populares In Guadalajara, Mexico, Nikki Craske; Chapter 6 Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes; Chapter 7 Touching the Air, Catherine M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Adjustment from Below, Caroline O. N. Moser; Chapter 9 ‘People Have to Rise Up – Like the Great Women Fighters’, Sarah A. Radcliffe;

Editorial Reviews

‘The authors are to be congratulated on compiling a book that does not present a sterotypical image of popular protest: there is a balanced mix of forms of protest political and popular - and a diversity of sites, urban and rural. This is not a book which aims to challenge our understanding and analysis of women's involvement in building and transforming the societies of Latin America. Racliffe and Westwood have successfully created an original piece of work that fills a niche, and its structure and content should encourage others to consider what are the forms of female protest.' - Ecumene

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