Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction:Gender and Politics, Experience and Structure
• Part I. El Salvador
  • Chapter 2. Women's Rights Are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES)
  • Chapter 3. Women for Dignity and Life: The Emergence of Feminisms from El Salvador's Revolutionary Left
  • Interview. Morena Herrera, Women for Dignity and Life
• Part II. Mexico
  • Chapter 4. The Politics of Urban Survival: The Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP, Mexico
  • Interview. Irene Soto, Women's Regional Council of the CONAMUP
  • Chapter 5. The Unintended Consequences of "Traditional" Women's Organizing: The Women's Council of the LÁzaro CÁrdenas Ejido Union, Nayarit
  • Interview. DoÑa Kata Moreno and Aurora Cruz, LÁzaro CÁrdenas Ejido Union
• Part III. Brazil
  • Chapter 6. Class, Gender and Autonomy: The Rural Women Workers' Movement of Southern Brazil
  • Interview. Gessi BonÊs and Marlene Pasquali, Rural Women Workers' Movement
• Part IV. Chile
  • Chapter 7. Sweet and Sour Grapes: The Struggles of Seasonal Women Workers in Chile
  • Interview. Antonia GÓmez, Interindustry Union of Seasonal and Permanent Workers of Santa MarÍa
• Chapter 8. Conclusions: Women in Action
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

"This book promises to make a significant contribution to the literature on women and social movements in Latin America. The fact that it draws upon collaborative relationships with the women written about is a further strength, making it of interest to activists and academics alike... It would make an excellent teaching text, and it would also be of interest to general readers." -- Florence E. Babb, author of Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru

About the Author

Lynn Stephen is Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University.

Reviews

A gendered analysis of the National Security regimes that dominated South and Central America in the 1970s and '80s reveals a pattern of abuse of women that failed to register in the public consciousness.... The evidence compiled by Stephen, a feminist ethnographer, from archives and interviews with women in grassroots movements in El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile reveals the breakdown of the patriarchal bargain: men in power withdrew protection from women, and women rebelled against the male domination that crippled them and left them unfit to lead their own lives. (Choice)