Women in the Latin American Development ProcessChristine E. Bose, Edna Acosta-Belén This interdisciplinary volume provides a historical and international framework for understanding the changing role of women in the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors challenge the traditional policies, goals, and effects of development, and examine such topics as colonialism and women's subordination; the links to economic, social, and political trends in North America; the gendered division of paid and unpaid work; differing economic structures, cultural and class patterns; women's organized resistance; and the relationship of gender to class, race, and ethnicity/nationality. Author note: Christine E. Bose is Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. >P>Edna Acosta-Belen is Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. |
Contents
PARTI | 13 |
CHAPTER 2 | 37 |
CHAPTER 3 | 65 |
CHAPTER 4 | 88 |
CHAPTER 5 | 125 |
PART II | 149 |
CHAPTER 7 | 167 |
CHAPTER 8 | 194 |
CHAPTER 9 | 227 |
CHAPTER 10 | 242 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 273 |
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