The Woman in the Violence
Author: M. Cristina Alcalde
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2010-12-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0826517315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombating abuse and violence in a South American capital
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Women's Place in the Andes
Author: Florence E. Babb
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-05-25
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0520970411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify currents in feminist anthropology and activism. Babb argues that decolonizing feminism and engaging more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.
Intersecting Inequalities
Author: Jelke Boesten
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0271036710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing inequalities based on race, class and gender in 1990s Peru"--Provided by publisher.
Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America
Author: Stéphanie Rousseau
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1349950637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.
Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru
Author: Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252039423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2001, following a generation of armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the Peruvian state created a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). Pascha Bueno-Hansen places the TRC, feminist and human rights movements, and related non-governmental organizations within an international and historical context to expose the difficulties in addressing gender-based violence. Her innovative theoretical and methodological framework based on decolonial feminism and a critical engagement with intersectionality facilitates an in-depth examination of the Peruvian transitional justice process based on field studies and archival research. Bueno-Hansen uncovers the colonial mappings and linear temporality underlying transitional justice efforts and illustrates why transitional justice mechanisms must reckon with the societal roots of atrocities, if they are to result in true and lasting social transformation. Original and bold, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru elucidates the tension between the promise of transitional justice and persistent inequality and impunity.
From Subjects to Citizens
Author: Sarah C. Chambers
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0271042575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in this process. Honor, underpinning the legitimacy of Spanish rule and a social hierarchy based on race and class during the colonial era, came to be an important source of resistance by ordinary citizens to repressive action by republican authorities fearful of disorder. Claiming the protection of their civil liberties as guaranteed by the constitution, these &"honorable&" citizens cited their hard work and respectable conduct in justification of their rights, in this way contributing to the shaping of republican discourse. Prominent politicians from Arequipa, familiar with these arguments made in courtrooms where they served as jurists, promoted at the national level a form of liberalism that emphasized not only discipline but also individual liberties and praise for the honest working man. But the protection of men's public reputations and their patriarchal authority, the author argues, came at the expense of women, who suffered further oppression from increasing public scrutiny of their sexual behavior through the definition of female virtue as private morality, which also justified their exclusion from politics. The advent of political liberalism was thus not associated with greater freedom, social or political, for women.
Second-Wave Neoliberalism
Author: Christina Ewig
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0271037121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Analyzes the politics of neoliberal health sector reform and its effects in Peru. Focuses on the intersecting dynamics of race, class, and gender in the developing world"--Provided by publisher.
Atlas of Gender and Development How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in non-OECD Countries
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-02-22
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9264077472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender inequality holds back not just women but the economic and social development of entire societies. This atlas presents a new measure of gender inequality which examines women’s status according to family situation, physical integrity, son preference, civil liberties and ownership rights.
Gendered Paradoxes
Author: Amy Lind
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0271076364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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 country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s 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 and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and “unfinished” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist “issue networks” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.
PISA The ABC of Gender Equality in Education Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9264229949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating compilation of the recent data on gender differences in education presents a wealth of data, analysed from a multitude of angles in a clear and lively way.
