Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Setting the Stage -- Introduction: Women Building Plural Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 1. Accomodating the Private into the Public Domain -- Part II: Women, Work, and Families -- 2. Women's Work and Neoliberal Globalization -- 3. Female-Headed Households and Poverty in Latin America -- 4. A "Top-Down" -- "Bottom-Up" Model -- Part III: Women's Agency for Plural Democracy and Full Citizenship -- 5. The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Speak -- 6. Gender Politics in Nicaragua -- 7. Haiti -- 8. From Urban Elite to Peasant Organizing -- Part IV: Broadening the Circle of Women's Activism -- 9. Women's Movements in Argentina -- 10. Advocating for Citizenship and Social Justice -- 11. Itineraries of Latin American Lesbian Insubordinatioin -- 12. Respect, Discrimination, and Violence -- Part V: Shaping Public Policy with A Gender Perspective -- 13. Peace Begins at Home -- 14. New Challenges in Feminist Practice -- 15. Women's Struggles for Rights in Venezuela -- 16. Trickling Up, Down, and Sideways -- Part VI: The Politics of Scale -- 17. From Insurgency to Feminist Struggle -- 18. The Latin American Network of Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir -- 19. Constructing New Democratic Paradigms for Global Democracy -- Part VII: Concluding Considerations -- 20. Concluding Reflections -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy.

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