...Shirlene Soto Against All Odds: The Feminist Movement in Mexico to 1940 . By Macías Anna . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1982 . Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index . Pp. xv , 195 . Cloth. $27.50 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Anna Macías, in Against All...

...M. E. Swisher Rural Women and State Policy: Feminist Perspectives on Latin American Agricultural Development . Edited by Deere Carmen Diana and León Magdalena . Boulder : Westview Press , 1987 . Notes. Bibliographies. Tables. Index . Pp. ix , 282 . Cloth . $38.00...

...Clara Sotelo The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis . By Herrera-Sobek María . Bloomington : University of Indiana Press , 1990 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 151 pp. Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 María Herrera-Sobek has...

...Rosemarijn Hoefte Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey Wife No. 1, or, A Tale of Two Amies . By Martin Tony . Dover, MA : Majority Press , 2007 . Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 450 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright...

...Anna Macías Gathering Rage: The Failure of Twentieth-Century Revolutions to Develop a Feminist Agenda . By Randall Margaret . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1992 . Notes . 192 pp. Cloth , $28.00 . Paper , $12.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

... as feminists create “critical multiaxis cartographies of knowledge in webs of relationality . . . as a first and necessary step toward social transformation” (p. 33). In addition, as an editor and writer I found her profound critique of the West's ethnographic authority in the chapter “Feminist Theories...

...Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Abstract This article examines the unique history of household workers’ activism in Chile from the 1950s to the 1990 transition to democracy, drawing on archival and oral sources to argue that key alliances with the Catholic Church, Center and Left parties, and feminist...

... and solidified ties with mainline feminists, Afro-Brazilian organizations, and labor unions. Furthermore, I examine how the participation of domestic workers in the Constituent Assembly, alongside allies from a variety of insurgent social movements, exposed long-standing patterns of racism, sexism, and classism...

..., national adulthood, self-expression, and the exuberant enjoyment of life. While the article focuses mostly on celebratory meanings, it also briefly examines the positions of ultra-Catholics and of feminists, who, from very different perspectives, raised the most critical voices against the destape...

... of racist and sexist ideas across Latin American societies. Moreover, her work was part of an early wave that brought the application of feminist and critical race theory to the field, with valuable outcomes. Her work has been a springboard for continuing investigations of the interplay between scientific...

... and families from the elite of the imperial city of Petrópolis, and how the nature of workplace relations in the domestic sphere constituted a central point of reference for the formulation of a nascent feminist rhetoric. These new rhetorics and practices, which engaged in defining and controlling the slow...

... active in the Southern Cone countries at the end of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century. Blending literature and history requires what Toril Moi, in Sexual/Textual Politics (1988), calls contextual-textual analysis, which considers how the feminist writers respond...

... reflected both the politics and the historiography of the time, the subordination of women’s interests and feminist politics to the leftist revolutionary project of the UP, and the marginality of women’s history in the United States as well as in Chile. In addition, historians imbibed many of the prevalent...

... feminist organizations had existed for decades, Argentine women gained the right to vote only in 1947. The author traces female participation in the public sphere since the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as the beginning of feminist movements at the turn of the twentieth century. He...

... . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 This collection of three short, incisively written essays by feminist activists is a critical assessment of the successes and failures of Mexican feminism over the past 30 years. The first two articles analyze the various phases that feminist theory...

... policies of inclusion to gain access to higher education and develop their own feminist consciousness. Shield of the Weak contributes to the history of Latin American feminism, offering a complex view of the relationships between gender, feminism, Uruguayan politics, and the Batllista state. Ehrick...

... other distinctly American strands of liberationist religious thought: black and feminist theology. Barger works adeptly with a stunning range of thinkers, anchoring her analysis in the writings of Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, black theologian James Cone, and feminist theologian Rosemary...

... far from that of feminist organizations militating and struggling for women’s juridical and civil rights. Rather, there is only advocacy for sexual equality as to education and work and a moderation which contrasts with the attitude of contemporary European and U.S. feminist leaders. The long...

...,” in Feminismo en México, ayer y hoy , ed. Eli Bartra, Anna M. Fernández Poncela, and Ana Lau (Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000), 15; H. Pereira de Melo, “Feminists and Domestic Workers in Rio de Janiero,” in Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean , ed. Elsa...

... studies, in Costa Rica’s universities form the second part of the book. The longer first part consists of six essays on feminist struggles in Costa Rica during the twentieth century and five on other topics. These include Asunción Lavrin’s survey of suffragist arguments across Latin America, historical...