Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below

by Lynn Stephen

Book Overview

Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care.

This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292777167
• ISBN13: 9780292777163
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"