TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menjívar,Cecilia
TI  - Through the eyes of women: gender, social networks, family and structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean 
T2  - International studies in social science,
SN  - 0969870752
AV  - HQ1460.5 .T48 2001
U1  - 305.42098 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Willowdale, Ont.
PB  - De Sitter Publications
KW  - Women
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Families
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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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