Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond

by Maxine Molyneux

Book Overview

Until now, the analysis of gender and political inequality, and of the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging re-evaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analyzing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian, and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba, alongside comparative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333786777
• ISBN13: 9780333786772
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Gender Politics in Latin America

Over the years, Maxine Molyneux has written some of the smartest articles that have been published in English on gender politics in Latin America. It is exciting to have many of her classic articles combined in one collection, along with some new articles addressing recent developments in Latin America, and academic critiques of her previous work. I am just now realizing that this collection is available in paperback which makes it perfect for courses on women in Latin America or for anyone who is interested in serious and very clearly written, non-jargonistic, analyses of gender politics in Latin America. And with the recent reelection of Daniel Ortega and the FSLN in Nicaragua, her two chapters on the FSLN's sometimes rocky relationship with Nicaraguan feminists make this collection very timely.