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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456452603321

Autore

Kaplan Temma

Titolo

Taking Back the Streets [[electronic resource] ] : Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004

ISBN

0-520-93687-6

1-59734-929-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/4/098

Soggetti

Women in politics-- Chile

Women - Political activity - Chile

Women - Political activity - Argentina

Women - Political activity - Spain

Youth - Political activity - Chile

Youth - Political activity - Argentina

Youth - Political activity - Spain

Protest movements - Chile

Protest movements - Argentina

Protest movements - Spain

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Prologue: Taking Back the Streets; 1 Staying Alive through Struggle; 2 Pots and Pans Will Break My Bones; 3 Democracy in the Country and in the Streets; 4 Searching and Remembering; 5 Memory through Mobilization; 6 Youth Finds a Way; 7 Demonstrating to Remember in Spain; Epilogue: Mobilizing for Democracy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa,



Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way.