Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Who Will Benefit?

Business & Money

Craske, Nikki

Biography & History

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Women and Politics in Latin America

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.  Nikki Craske explores the ways in which women have become more effective  in the public arena as the context of politics has altered.      Craske demonstrates how gender relations shape political  institutions and practices while simultaneously being shaped by them.  She examines the moments when women's action has challenged received  ideas, and had a significant impact on the political life of Latin  American nations. Women remain heavily underrepresented in political  lie, despite their important role in popular movements against  authoritarianism, Craske states, and posits that the economy is a  substantial constraint on women's political participation. This powerful  book analyzes the gains made since the 1950s while scrutinizing the  challenges and difficulties which still constrain women's political  participation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Polity

Politics & Government

Social Sciences

Rutgers Univ Pr

<p>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. Nikki Craske explores the ways in which women have become more effective in the public arena as the context of politics has altered.</p> Craske demonstrates how gender relations shape political institutions and practices while simultaneously being shaped by them. She examines the moments when women's action has challenged received ideas, and had a significant impact on the political life of Latin American nations. Women remain heavily underrepresented in political lie, despite their important role in popular movements against authoritarianism, Craske states, and posits that the economy is a substantial constraint on women's political participation. This powerful book analyzes the gains made since the 1950s while scrutinizing the challenges and difficulties which still constrain women's political participation.

Rutgers University Press

Gender in Latin America

In Latin America,  gender is a fundamental dimension of virtually every aspect of  contemporary social, economic, and political life. Gender in Latin America  is a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in the region at  the start of the twenty-first century. The authors draw on a wide range  of research, including their own field-based expertise, to illuminate  the importance of diversity in gender in this region. Debunking  traditional stereotypes, the book charts changes and continuities in  gender roles, relations and identities associated with the growing  evidence produced by feminist scholarship and activism in the continent.Chapters are arranged around themes such as gender and poverty,  gender and population, gender and health, and gender and employment.  Each chapter begins with an introduction to the core issues, and debates  in the relevant field in order to set specific regional experiences  within their global as well as regional contexts. The authors also refer  to new bodies of literature on the subject, including those on men and  masculinity, fatherhood, and sexuality.

Chant, Sylvia H.

Gender impacts on every major social issue from rights to social policy, and from ethnicity to poverty. This work is a comprehensive overview of the subject, examining trends in gender over history until the present. The authors draw on a wide range of theoretial analyses in addition to their own field of work to illuminate the importance of diversity in gender in Latin America, as well as more traditionally held concepts of class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide and age and peer groups. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, this text charts contemporary changes gender roles, relations between the genders, and gender- and sexuality-based identities. Chapters are arranged around broad themes, including gender and poverty, gender and health, gender and sexuality and gender and employment. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the core issues the debates and theoretical work in the relevant field, and case studies. The authors also make reference to the continually expanding literature on the subject, including work on men and masculinity, fatherhood and sexuality.

Chant, Sylvia

Latin America Bureau (LAB)

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