Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America (Routledge Inte

Taylor & Francis

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of `the nation'.\n > Chapter 1 Gender, Racism and the Politics of Identities in Latin America, Sallie Westwood, Sarah A. Radcliffe; Chapter 2 The Seeking of Truth and the Gendering of Consciousness, Jennifer Schirmer; Chapter 3 Ecologia, Mar\u00EDa-Pilar Garc\u00EDa Guadilla; Chapter 4 \u2018We Learned to Think Politically\u2019, Leda Maria Vieira Machado; Chapter 5 Women\u2019s Political Participation in Colonias Populares In Guadalajara, Mexico, Nikki Craske; Chapter 6 Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes; Chapter 7 Touching the Air, Catherine M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Adjustment from Below, Caroline O. N. Moser; Chapter 9 \u2018People Have to Rise Up \u2013 Like the Great Women Fighters\u2019, Sarah A. Radcliffe; > \n`The authors aree