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Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics

Contributors:

By (Author) Sonia E. Alvarez

ISBN:

9780691023250

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

2nd January 1991

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Feminism and feminist theory

Dewey:

305.420981

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm

Weight:

454g

Description

Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final stages of regime transition in the 1980s. Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and women's studies and feminist political theory.

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