Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

by Maxine Molyneux

This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033394948X
• ISBN13: 9780333949481
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"