Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America

by Jo Fisher

Book Overview

Since the early 1970s the lives of South America's women have been transformed by military rule. In Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, women were at the forefront of the opposition to dictators such as Chile's General Pinochet and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner. New "social movements" of shanty town and peasant women set up their own organizations, expanding into the vacuum left by the military's destruction of the old, male-dominated left. Built...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906156777
• ISBN13: 9780906156773
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"