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GENDER POLITICS IN
LATIN AMERICA
Debates in Theory and Practice
edited
by Elizabeth Dore
“This wide-ranging multidisciplinary
collection is essential reading, bringing together theoretical reflection and
case study material on the different meanings given to politics in Latin
America today.”
—
MAXINE MOLYNEUX, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of
London
“This is a book that should inspire
enthusiasm in even the most weary or impatient student of gender. No facile
assumption goes unexamined nor partial truth left to stand.... This excellent
collection is exceptional in the range of issues it tackles and the degree of
success it achieves in challenging the ideas that have become received wisdom
in women's and gender studies.”
—JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN
STUDIES
This collection offers the best scholarly work emerging at the intersection
of gender theory and Latin American studies. The essays analyze the gendered
politics of state power, language, culture, history, social movements, human
rights, and knowledge. Outstanding scholars and activists map the debates that
have broken new and fertile ground in Latin American gender studies,
criticizing short-comings and speculating on future directions. In their
examination of everyday struggles over gender politics, the contributors
illustrate the link between political action and conceptual debates. Innovative
and challenging, this book will generate discussion in a wide range of fields.
Contents & Contributors
Introduction: Controversies in Gender Politics
by ELIZABETH DORE
Women, Work, and Empowerment: Romanticizing the
Reality
by SHARON McCLENAGHAN
Nicaraguan Women: Legal, Political, and Social
Spaces
by ANNA FERNANDEZ PONCELA
Public and Private Spheres: the End of Dichotomy
by TESSA CUBITT AND HELEN GREENSLADE
Engendering Human Rights
by ELIZABETH JELIN
"Desde La Protesta a La Propuesta":
The Institutionalization of the Women's Movement in Chile
by ANN MATEAR
The Holy Family: Imagined Households in Latin American
History
by ELIZABETH DORE
The Charm of Family Patterns:
Historical and Contemporary Change in Latin America
by RICARDO CICERCHIA
Sex/Gender Arrangements and the Reproduction
of Class in the Latin American Past
by MURIEL NAZZARI
Reading Gender in History
by CARMEN RAMOS ESCANDON
Problems of Definition in Theorizing Latin American
Women's Writing
by DEBORAH SHAW
The Subversive Languages of Carmen Oll?: Irony and
Imagination
by WILLIAM ROWE
From the Margins to the Center: Recent Trends
in Feminist Theory in the United States and Latin America
by JEAN FRANCO
Gender Politics: Luisa Valenzuela's "Cola De
Lagartija"
by CLAUDINE POTVIN
Conclusion: Post Binary Bliss: a New Materialist
Synthesis?
by NANNEKE REDCLIFT
About the Editor
ELIZABETH DORE is
senior lecturer in Latin American history at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
She is author of The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and
Crisis (1988) and co-editor of Historical Perspectives on Gender and the
State in Latin America.
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