Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship

Setting the Stage

Women building plural democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean / Nathalie Lebon

Accommodating the private into the public domain: experiences and legacies of the past four decades / Elizabeth Maier

Women, Work, and Families: the Structural Context of Globalization

Women's work and neoliberal globalization: implications for gender equality / Alice Colón and Sara Poggio

Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America: a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic / Helen Safa

A "top-down"

"bottom-up" model: four decades of women's employment and gender ideology in Cuba / Marta Nunez Sarmiento

Women's Agency for Plural Democracy and Full Citizenship

The mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo speak / interviews by Graciela di Marco

Gender politics in Nicaragua: feminism, antifeminism, and the return of Daniel Ortega / Karen Kampwirth

Haiti: women in conquest of full and total citizenship in an endless transition / Myriam Merlet

From urban elite to peasant organizing: agendas, accomplishments, and challenges of thirty-plus years of Guatemalan feminism, 1975-2007 / Ana Lorena Carrillo and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla

Broadening the Circle of Women's Activism: New Meanings from Intersecting Oppressions

Women's movements in Argentina: tensions and articulations / Graciela di Marco

Advocating for citizenship and social justice: black women activists in Brazil / Kia Lilly Caldwell

Itineraries of Latin American lesbian insubordination / Norma Mogrovejo

Respect, discrimination, and violence: indigenous women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 / Mercedes Prieto, Andrea Pequeno, Clorinda Cominao, Alejandra Flores, and Gina Maldonado

Shaping Public Policy with a Gender Perspective

Peace begins at home: women's struggles against violence and state actions in Costa Rica / Montserrat Sagot

New challenges in feminist practice: the women's institutes in Mexico / María Luisa Tarrés

Women's struggles for rights in Venezuela: opportunities and challenges / Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina

Trickling up, down, and sideways: gender policy and political opportunity in Brazil / Fiona Macaulay

The Politics of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global Feminist Agency

From insurgency to feminist struggle: the search for social justice, democracy, and equality between women and men / Morena Herrera

The Latin American network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Marysa Navarro and María Consuelo Mejía

Constructing new democratic paradigms for global democracy: the contribution of feminisms / Virginia Vargas

Concluding Considerations

Concluding reflections: renegotiating gender in Latin America and the Carribean / Elizabeth Maier.