Authors: Gertrude M. Yeager
ISBN-13: 9780842024808, ISBN-10: 0842024808
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Sr Books
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition.
The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures. The selections are arranged in two sections: Culture and the Status of Women, and Reconstructing the Past.
Twenty studies explore how Latin American culture has portrayed and defined women from the time of Columbus to the present through traditional practices, political ideology, intellectual prescriptions, and popular culture; and examine the conditions that actually shape the past and present lives of women at every social level. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction | ||
1 | Marianismo: The Other Face of Machismo | 3 |
2 | Women's Liberation in Latin America: Toward a History of the Present | 18 |
3 | Concerning Women's Intelligence and Beauty | 26 |
4 | Concerning the Education of Women | 30 |
5 | The Influence of the Present Mexican Revolution upon the Status of Mexican Women | 40 |
6 | Jorge Amado: Champion of Women's Sexual Freedom | 55 |
7 | Women in the World of the Tango | 66 |
8 | Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Colombia | 81 |
9 | Changes in Mexican Family Law in the Nineteenth Century | 87 |
10 | Women, Peonage, and Industrialization: Argentina, 1810-1914 | 103 |
11 | The Catholic Church, Work, and Womanhood in Argentina, 1890-1930 | 127 |
12 | The "Chola" | 152 |
13 | The Suffrage Movement in Latin America | 157 |
14 | Kinship Structure and the Role of Women in the Urban Upper Class of Mexico | 177 |
15 | Republic of Cuba, Law No. 1263: The Revolution Protects Motherhood | 182 |
16 | A Typology of Poor Women | 189 |
17 | From Home to Street: Women and Revolution in Nicaragua | 197 |
18 | Interview with Indiana Acevedo, July 21, 1992, Managua, Nicaragua | 211 |
19 | "War Is Our Daily Life": Women's Participation in Sendero Luminoso | 219 |
20 | Bread and Roses: Women Who Live Poverty | 226 |
Suggested Readings | 235 | |
Suggested Films | 241 |