This book provides a comprehensive view of women’s political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions and feminisms.
Table of Content
List of Tables.
Acronyms.
1. Argument.
2. Women and Political Identity in Latin America.
3. Setting the Scene.
4. Formal Political Representation: Governments, Parties and
Bureaucracies.
5. The Impact of Work on Political Identity.
6. Social Movements: Consumer and Human Rights
Organizations.
7. Revolutionary Empowerment?.
8. Feminisms in Latin America.
9. Conclusions: Politics: An Ambivalent Experience.
Notes.
References.
Index.
About the author
Nikki Craske is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool
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