Engendering Democracy in Brazil
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Activism
Alfred Stepan
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Centre-right politics
Civil society
Class conflict
Day care
Democracy
Democratic Social Party
Democratization
Dictatorship
Domestic worker
Employment
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Family planning
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist movement
Feminist theory
Gender equality
Gender inequality
Gender role
Government
Grassroots
Housewife
Identity politics
Ideology
International Women's Day
Latin America
Left-wing politics
Legislation
Legislature
Liberalization
Liberation movement
Liberation theology
Marxism
Militant (Trotskyist group)
Mother
National security
New social movements
Opposition Party
Oppression
Oxford University Press
Participant
Political campaign
Political economy
Political opportunity
Political party
Political science
Political strategy
Politician
Politics
Protest
Public policy
Public sphere
Reproductive rights
Sexism
Social class
Social movement
Social movement organization
Social relation
Social transformation
State (polity)
The woman question
Trade union
Violence against women
Women's health
Women's rights
Women's suffrage
Working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780691023250
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
