Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America. (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place) - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138144401 ISBN 13: 9781138144408

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

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:

..."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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138144401
• ISBN 13: 9781138144408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288