Women In the Latin American Development Process

This volume provides a historical and international framework for understanding the changing role of women in the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. It challenges the traditional policies, goals and effects of development.

Christine E. Bose is Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Edna Acosta-Belén is Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Contributors: Luz del Alba Acevedo, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, June Nash, Jean Larson Pyle, Saskia Sassen, Palmira N. Rios, Frances Abrahamer Rothstein, Helen Icken Safa,, Kathryn B. Ward, and the editors.