Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

by Amy Lind

Book Overview

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women's participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102545X
• ISBN13: 9780271025452
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"