By Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl L. Lutjens,Angela Nieves-Xavier de Brito,Rosa M. Cañadell,Norma Chinchilla,Christine E. Eber,Christine G. T. Ho,Karen Kampwirth,David Kunzle,Eleanor Leacock,Sara Nelson,Helen I. Safa,Marta E. Savigliano,Lynn Stephen,Nancy Saporta S

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ISBN-13: 9780742510746

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ISBN-13: 9780742510753

This fundamental textual content reader offers a broad-ranging and thoughtfully equipped feminist advent to the continued controversies of improvement in Latin the United States and the Caribbean. Designed to be used in a number of collage classes, the quantity collects an influential team of essays first released in Latin American Perspectives—a theoretical and scholarly magazine enthusiastic about the political economic climate of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism within the Americas. The reader is prepared into thematic sections that concentrate on paintings, politics, and tradition, and every part contains major introductions that establish key concerns, traits, and debates within the scholarly literature on girls and gender within the region.

Demonstrating the wealthy and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American stories, this selection of well timed, empirical reviews promotes severe pondering women's position and gear; approximately idea and examine techniques; and approximately modern fiscal, political, and social stipulations in Latin the United States and the Caribbean. worthy as either a supplementary or basic textual content, Rereading Women makes a powerful declare for a materialist feminist research. It convincingly indicates why girls became an more and more very important topic of analysis, recognizes their profits and struggles through the years, and explores the contributions that feminist concept has made towards the popularity of gender as a relevant—indeed essential—category for studying the political economic system of development.

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) by Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl L. Lutjens,Angela Nieves-Xavier de Brito,Rosa M. Cañadell,Norma Chinchilla,Christine E. Eber,Christine G. T. Ho,Karen Kampwirth,David Kunzle,Eleanor Leacock,Sara Nelson,Helen I. Safa,Marta E. Savigliano,Lynn Stephen,Nancy Saporta S


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