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Bose, Christine E., and Acosta-Belen, Edna (Joint Editors)
Women in the Latin American Development Process
Philadelphia Temple University Press 1995 1566392934 / 9781566392938 Trade Paperback Very Good
x, 290 pp., biblioe., index; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "This interdisciplinary volume provides a historical and international framework for understanding the changing role of women in the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors challenge the traditional policies, goals, and effects of development, and examine such topics as colonialism and women's subordination; the links to economic, social, and political trends in North America; the gendered division of paid and unpaid work; differing economic structures, cultural and class patterns; women's organized resistance; and the relationship of gender to class, race, and ethnicity/nationality. / Christine E. Bose is Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also author of Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century (Temple). Edna Acosta-Belén is Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Contributors: Luz del Alba Acevedo, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, June Nash, Jean Larson Pyle, Saskia Sassen, Palmira N. Rios, Frances Abrahamer Rothstein, Helen Icken Safa,, Kathryn B. Ward, and the editors." - Publisher.
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