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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Nikki Craske

    1. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

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  2. Maxine Molyneux

    1. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Local, the Regional and the Global: Transforming the Politics of Rights

    • Maxine Molyneux, Nikki Craske
    Pages 1-31

  3. Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-making: Electoral Quotas and Women’s Leadership in Latin America

    • Mala N. Htun, Mark P. Jones
    Pages 32-56

  4. Getting Rights for Those without Representation: the Success of Conjunctural Coalition-building in Venezuela

    • Elisabeth Jay Friedman
    Pages 57-78

  5. Taking the Law into their Own Hands: Women, Legal Reform and Legal Literacy in Brazil

    • Fiona Macaulay
    Pages 79-101

  6. In Pursuit of the Right to be Free from Violence: the Women’s Movement and State Accountability in Uruguay

    • Niki Johnson
    Pages 102-123

  7. Constructing Citizenship in the Poblaciónes of Santiago, Chile: the Role of Reproductive and Sexual Rights

    • Ceri Willmott
    Pages 124-148

  8. Indigenous Women, Rights and the Nation-State in the Andes

    • Sarah A. Radcliffe
    Pages 149-172

  9. Economic and Social Rights: Exploring Gender Differences in a Central American Context

    • Jasmine Gideon
    Pages 173-198

  10. The Struggle by Latin American Feminisms for Rights and Autonomy

    • Virginia Vargas
    Pages 199-221

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 222-226
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This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.

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'This is a well-integrated set of case studies with a useful and informative introduction by the editors.' - Cathy A. Rakowski, Latin American Research Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

    Nikki Craske

  • Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, UK

    Maxine Molyneux

About the editors

ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Barnard College, Columbia University JASMINE GIDEON Researcher of Socio-Economic and Gender Issues, University of Manchester MALA N. HTUN Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School University MARK P. JONES Department of Political Science, Michigan State University NIKI JOHNSON Researcher, Institute de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay FIONA MACAULAY Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London SARAH RADCLIFFE Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge VIRGINIA VARGAS Member of the Peruvian NGO Centro de Mujeres: Flora Tristán CERI WILLMOTT Freelance Consultant, Social Development

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