Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador - Couverture souple

Lind, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 027102545X ISBN 13 : 9780271025452

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Gendered Paradoxes Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its free market strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the countrys poor, including womens groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on womens participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy an...

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 027102545X
• ISBN 13: 9780271025452
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200