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Through the eyes of women : gender, social networks, family and structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Cecilia Menjívar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International studies in social science ; v. 3.Publisher: Willowdale, Ont. : De Sitter Publications, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 303 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0969870752
  • 9780969870753
Other title:
  • Gender, social networks, family and structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42098
LOC classification:
  • HQ1460.5 .T48 2001
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction / Cecilia Menjivar -- Ch. 2. Questioning globalization : gender and export processing in the Dominican Republic / Helen I. Safa -- Ch. 3. Gender, work, and family in Cuba : the challenges of the special period / Maura I. Toro-Morn, Anne R. Roschelle and Elisa Facio -- Ch. 4. Psychic and somatic vulnerability among professional women in Argentina as a result of the precarization of labor linked during the socioeconomic crisis / Susana Masseroni and Susana Sauane -- Ch. 5. Women and survival strategies in poor urban contexts : a case study from Guadalajara, Mexico / Rocio Enriquez Rosas -- Ch. 6. Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica / Sylvia Chant -- Ch. 7. Households and income : ageing and gender inequalities in urban Brazil and Colombia / Maria Cristina Gomes da Conceicao -- Ch. 8. Work, gender, and space : women's home-based work in Tijuana, Mexico / Silvia Lopez Estrada -- Ch. 9. Organizing a space of their own? : global/local processes in a Nicaraguan women's organization / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- Ch. 10. Making feminist sense of neoliberalism : the institutionalization of women's struggles for survival in Ecuador and Bolivia / Amy Lind -- Ch. 11. Competition and cooperation among working women in the context of structural adjustment : the case of street vendors in La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia / Victor Agadjanian.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction / Cecilia Menjivar -- Ch. 2. Questioning globalization : gender and export processing in the Dominican Republic / Helen I. Safa -- Ch. 3. Gender, work, and family in Cuba : the challenges of the special period / Maura I. Toro-Morn, Anne R. Roschelle and Elisa Facio -- Ch. 4. Psychic and somatic vulnerability among professional women in Argentina as a result of the precarization of labor linked during the socioeconomic crisis / Susana Masseroni and Susana Sauane -- Ch. 5. Women and survival strategies in poor urban contexts : a case study from Guadalajara, Mexico / Rocio Enriquez Rosas -- Ch. 6. Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica / Sylvia Chant -- Ch. 7. Households and income : ageing and gender inequalities in urban Brazil and Colombia / Maria Cristina Gomes da Conceicao -- Ch. 8. Work, gender, and space : women's home-based work in Tijuana, Mexico / Silvia Lopez Estrada -- Ch. 9. Organizing a space of their own? : global/local processes in a Nicaraguan women's organization / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- Ch. 10. Making feminist sense of neoliberalism : the institutionalization of women's struggles for survival in Ecuador and Bolivia / Amy Lind -- Ch. 11. Competition and cooperation among working women in the context of structural adjustment : the case of street vendors in La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia / Victor Agadjanian.

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