ABSTRACT
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'.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |35 pages
The Seeking of Truth and the Gendering of Consciousness
The CoMadres of El Salvador and the CONAVIGUA widows of Guatemala
chapter |24 pages
‘We Learned to Think Politically’
The influence of the Catholic Church and the feminist movement on the emergence of the health movement of the Jardim Nordeste area in São Paulo, Brazil
chapter |20 pages
Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?
Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil
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chapter |24 pages
Adjustment from Below
Low-income women, time and the triple role in Guayaquil, Ecuador
chapter |22 pages
‘People Have to Rise Up – Like the Great Women Fighters’
The state and peasant women in Peru
