TY - BOOK AU - Lebon,Nathalie AU - Maier,Elizabeth TI - Women´s activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship SN - 0813547288 U1 - 320.98082 PY - 2010/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J., Tijuana, Mexico PB - Rutgers University Press, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C. KW - Feminismo KW - América Latina KW - Caribe (Región) KW - Mujeres KW - Actividad política N1 - Incluye bibliografía; _; Introduction; Women building plural democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean; Nathalie Lebon --; Accommodating the private into the public domain : experiences and legacies of the past four decades; Elizabeth Maier --; Women´s work and neoliberal globalization : implications for gender equality; Alice Colón and Sara Poggio --; Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic; Helen Safa --; A ´top-down´--´bottom-up´ model : four decades of women´s employment and gender ideology in Cuba; Marta Núñez Sarmiento --; The mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo speak; interviews by Graciela di Marco --; Gender politics in Nicaragua : feminism, antifeminism, and the return of Daniel Ortega; Karen Kampwirth --; Haiti : women in conquest of full and total citizenship in an endless transition; Myriam Merlet --; _; Fiona Macaulay --; From insurgency to feminist struggle : the search for social justice, democracy, and equality between women and men; Morena Herrera --; The Latin American network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir; Marysa Navarro and María Consuelo Mejía --; Constructing new democratic paradigms for global democracy : the contribution of feminisms; Virginia Vargas --; Concluding reflections : renegotiating gender in Latin America and the Caribbean; Elizabeth Maier; _; From urban elite to peasant organizing : agendas, accomplishments, and challenges of thirty-plus years of Guatemalan feminism; Ana Lorena Carrillo and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla --; Women´s movements in Argentina : tensions and articulations; Graciela di Marco --; Advocating for citizenship and social justice : black women activists in Brazil; Kia Lilly Caldwell --; Itineraries of Latin American lesbian insobordination; Norma Mogrovejo --; Respect, discrimination, and violence : indigenous women in Ecuador, 1990-2007; Mercedes Prieto ... [et al.] --; Peace begins at home : women´s struggles against violence and state actions in Costa Rica; Montserrat Sagot --; New challenges in feminist practice : the women´s institutes in Mexico; María Luisa Tarrés --; Women´s struggles for rights in Venezuela : opportunities and challenges; Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina --; Trickling up, down, and sideways : gender policy and political opportunity in Brazil ER -