Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

by Maxine Molyneux

This volume addresses the question of why issues of rights and democracy have become so central to women's movements in post-transition Latin America. As important actors in the struggle for democracy, women's movements moved from being an oppositional force to one forging new strategies to promote gender justice. The international attention focused on human rights in the 1990s, along with the recognition accorded to women's rights, provided a favorable...

• 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"