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Book SynopsisThis innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women’s grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile.
Trade ReviewA gendered analysis of the National Security regimes that dominated South and Central America in the 1970s and '80s reveals a pattern of abuse of women that failed to register in the public consciousness.... The evidence compiled by Stephen, a feminist ethnographer, from archives and interviews with women in grassroots movements in El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile reveals the breakdown of the patriarchal bargain: men in power withdrew protection from women, and women rebelled against the male domination that crippled them and left them unfit to lead their own lives. * Choice *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction:Gender and Politics, Experience and Structure
- Part I. El Salvador
- Chapter 2. Women's Rights Are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES)
- Chapter 3. Women for Dignity and Life: The Emergence of Feminisms from El Salvador's Revolutionary Left
- Interview. Morena Herrera, Women for Dignity and Life
- Part II. Mexico
- Chapter 4. The Politics of Urban Survival: The Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP, Mexico
- Interview. Irene Soto, Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP
- Chapter 5. The Unintended Consequences of "Traditional" Women's Organizing: The Women's Council of the Lázaro Cárdenas Ejido Union, Nayarit
- Interview. Doña Kata Moreno and Aurora Cruz, Lázaro Cárdenas Ejido Union
- Part III. Brazil
- Chapter 6. Class, Gender and Autonomy: The Rural Women Workers' Movement of Southern Brazil
- Interview. Gessi Bonês and Marlene Pasquali, Rural Women Workers' Movement
- Part IV. Chile
- Chapter 7. Sweet and Sour Grapes: The Struggles of Seasonal Women Workers in Chile
- Interview. Antonia Gómez, Interindustry Union of Seasonal and Permanent Workers of Santa María
- Chapter 8. Conclusions: Women in Action
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
