Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador,...
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Americas Anthropology Central America Civil Rights Cultural Elections & Political Process Feminist Theory Gender Studies History Latin America Nonfiction Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Women in History Women's Studies