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Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America (International Studies of Women and Place) - Hardcover
Latin America has seen revolutionary governments, authoritarian dictatorships and reformist military administrations. The region has also seen powerful grassroots movements demanding social and political change. Through their active involvement women are seen for the first time as integral to the process of democratization. Yet these women are not a simple unity with shared aims. Class and ethnicity create division. "Viva" explores the growing role of women in the formal and informal politics of the countries of Latin America. The authors focus 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".
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About the Author:
Sarah A Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography, at the University of Cambridge. She has interests in development geography, gender and geography, and postcolonial approaches. She has published widely on these themes in English and Spanish, including "Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power and Transnationalism" (2009, Duke University Press, co-author). ProfessorRadcliffe's latest book is Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous women and the limits of postcolonial development policy (2015, Duke University Press).
Westwood teaches at the University of Leicester.
Review:
Westwood teaches at the University of Leicester.
..."a compelling vision of gender-informed politics for Latin America in particular and all societies in general. "Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America is a valuable contribution to the literature on gender, political activism, and development."
-"Growth and Change
"This volume presents a wealth of material interpreting the struggles of women on many issues; motherhood, control of one's body and fertility, group identity, and violence, all engaging aspects of the state as contested terrain."
-"Signs
-"Growth and Change
"This volume presents a wealth of material interpreting the struggles of women on many issues; motherhood, control of one's body and fertility, group identity, and violence, all engaging aspects of the state as contested terrain."
-"Signs
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 041507312X
- ISBN 13 9780415073127
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
- EditorWestwood Sallie
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