Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Alvarez, Sonia E. -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I. Setting the Stage -- Introduction / Lebon, Nathalie -- 1. Accommodating the Private into the Public Domain: Experiences and Legacies of the Past Four Decades / Maier, Elizabeth -- Part II. Women, Work, and Families: The Structural Context of Globalization -- 2. Women's Work and Neoliberal Globalization: Implications for Gender Equity / Colón, Alice / Poggio, Sara -- 3. Female-Headed Households and Poverty in Latin America: A Comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic / Safa, Helen -- 4. A "Top-Down"-"Bottom-Up" Model: Four Decades of Women's Employment and Gender Ideology in Cuba / Sarmiento, Marta Núñez -- Part III. Women's Agency for Plural Democracy and Full Citizenship -- 5. The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Speak / Marco, Graciela Di -- 6. Gender Politics in Nicaragua: Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Return of Daniel Ortega / Kampwirth, Karen -- 7. Haiti: Women in Conquest of Full and Total Citizenship in an Endless Transition / Merlet, Myriam -- 8. From Urban Elite to Peasant Organizing: Agendas, Accomplishments, and Challenges of Thirty-plus Years of Guatemalan Feminism, 1975-2007 / Carrillo, Ana Lorena / Chinchilla, Norma Stoltz -- Part IV. Broadening the Circle of Women's Activism: New Meanings from Intersecting Oppressions -- 9. Women's Movements in Argentina: Tensions and Articulations / Marco, Graciela Di -- 10. Advocating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Black Women Activists in Brazil / Caldwell, Kia Lilly -- 11. Itineraries of Latin American Lesbian Insubordination / Mogrovejo, Norma -- 12. Respect, Discrimination, and Violence: Indigenous Women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 / Prieto, Mercedes / Pequeño, Andrea / Cominao, Clorinda / Flores, Alejandra / Maldonado, Gina -- Part V. Shaping Public Policy with a Gender Perspective -- 13. Peace Begins at Home: Women's Struggles against Violence and State Actions in Costa Rica / Sagot, Montserrat -- 14. New Challenges in Feminist Practice: The Women's Institutes in Mexico / Tarrés, María Luisa -- 15. Women's Struggles for Rights in Venezuela: Opportunities and Challenges / Rakowski, Cathy A. / Espina, Gioconda -- 16. Trickling Up, Down, and Sideways: Gender Policy and Political Opportunity in Brazil / Macaulay, Fiona -- Part VI. The Politics of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global Feminist Agency -- 17. From Insurgency to Feminist Struggle: The Search for Social Justice, Democracy, and Equality between Women and Men / Herrera, Morena -- 18. The Latin American Network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Navarro, Marysa / Mejía, María Consuelo -- 19. Constructing New Democratic Paradigms for Global Democracy: The Contribution of Feminisms / Vargas, Virginia -- Part VII. Concluding Considerations -- 20. Concluding Reflections: Renegotiating Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean / Maier, Elizabeth -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |