Taking risks : feminist activism and research in the Americas / / edited by Julie Shayne ; foreword by Margaret Randall ; Marisela Fleites-Lear [and thirteen others], contributors

• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42097
• Soggetto topico: Feminism - History - North America; Feminism - History - South America; Social justice - History - North America; Social justice - History - South America
• Persona (resp. second.): ShayneJulie D. <1966->; RandallMargaret; Fleites-LearMarisela
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- About the cover -- Monument to civilians massacred at Plaza de Mayo / Nora Patrich -- Foreword -- The thing about taking risks / Margaret Randall -- Introduction -- Research, risk, and activism : feminists' stories of social justice / Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle -- Section onepart one: texts, stories, and activism -- Writing and activism / Carmen Rodríguez -- Absence in memories : reading stories of survival in Argentina / Mahala Lettvin -- Chilean exiles and their feminist stories / Julie Shayne -- Navigating the Cuban ideological divide : research on the independent libraries movement / Marisela Fleites-Lear -- Section twopart two: performed stories of social justice -- We also built the city of Medellín : Deplazadas' family albums as feminist archival activism / Tamera Marko -- Who owns the archive? : community media in contemporary Venezuela / Robin Garcia -- Echoes of injustice : performative activism and the femicide plaguing Ciudad Juárez / Christina Marín -- Section threepart three: activist stories from the grassroots -- Feminist tensions : race, sex work, and women/s activism in Bahia / Erica Lorraine Williams -- Latina battered immigrants, citizenship and inequalities : reflections on activist research / Roberta Villalón -- Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua : voices of the Compañeras / Shelly Grabe -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Mother's day / Julie Shayne -- About the authorscontributors -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Taking risks
• ISBN: 1-4384-5247-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786695203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.