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

By Maxine Molyneux

Book Overview

The essays collected in this volume reflect the remarkable analytical scope and geographical range of their author, engaging fully with the debates over the politics of gender as well as appraising women's movements in widely varying societies. Most chapters deal directly with Latin American issues and experiences, including anarchist feminism in the nineteenth-century Argentina; the politics of gender and those of abortion in Sandinista Nicaragua; the role of the official Cuban women's organisation in the 1990s; and appraisals of the relations between gender, citizenship and state formation in twentieth-century Latin America.

'... the work of an original and candid scholar ... Enlightening and refreshing, this book should be read by anyone concerned with contemporary questions of citizenship and social membership'

Matthew C. Gutman, Brown University

'This is an important book about big concepts - political interests, social activism in authoritarian states, revolution, and democracy'

L. D. Bush, University of Pittsburgh

'... this book definitively distinguishes Molyneux as one of the leading contemporary thinkers in the field'

Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900039583
• ISBN13: 9781900039581
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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.