REVIEWS | EXCERPT | CONTENTS | AUTHOR BIO | SUBJECT CATEGORIESThe role of gender and politics in the ever-changing goals and effects of development Women in the Latin American Development ProcessSearch the full text of this bookedited by Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-BelénThis interdisciplinary volume provides a historical and international framework for understanding the changing role of women in the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors challenge the traditional policies, goals, and effects of development, and examine such topics as colonialism and women's subordination; the links to economic, social, and political trends in North America; the gendered division of paid and unpaid work; differing economic structures, cultural and class patterns; women's organized resistance; and the relationship of gender to class, race, and ethnicity/nationality. ExcerptReviews"Although the essays vary widely in the depth of their analysis, they disagree little on the significance of changes in society caused by the global economy and the participation of women in the public workplace."
ContentsPreface
Part I: From Colonization to Development and Industrialization: Gender and the Economy
Part II: Empowering Women: Individual, Household, and Collective Strategies
About the Editors and Contributors
About the Author(s)
Contributors: Luz del Alba Acevedo, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, June Nash, Jean Larson Pyle, Saskia Sassen, Palmira N. Rios, Frances Abrahamer Rothstein, Helen Icken Safa,, Kathryn B. Ward, and the editors. Subject Categories |