Gender in Latin America

by Sylvia Chant

With Nikki Craske

Foreword by Mercedes de la Rocha

Published by: Rutgers University Press

Subjects:Gender Studies, Latin American Studies

320 Pages

Paperback
9780813531960
Published: October 23, 2002

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In Latin America, gender is a fundamental dimension of virtually every aspect of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Gender in Latin America is a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in the region at the start of the twenty-first century. The authors draw on a wide range of research, including their own field-based expertise, to illuminate the importance of diversity in gender in this region. Debunking traditional stereotypes, the book charts changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities associated with the growing evidence produced by feminist scholarship and activism in the continent.

Chapters are arranged around themes such as gender and poverty, gender and population, gender and health, and gender and employment. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the core issues, and debates in the relevant field in order to set specific regional experiences within their global as well as regional contexts. The authors also refer to new bodies of literature on the subject, including those on men and masculinity, fatherhood, and sexuality.

Introduction : gender in a changing continent / Sylvia Chant
Gender, politics and legislation / Nikki Craske
Gender, poverty and social movements / Nikki Craske
Gender and population / Sylvia Chant
Gender and health / Sylvia Chant
Gender and sexuality / Sylvia Chant with Nikki Craske
Gender, families and households / Sylvia Chant
Gender and employment / Sylvia Chant
Gender and migration / Sylvia Chant
Conclusion : looking to the future / Sylvia Chant

Sylvia Chant is professor of geography at the London School of Economics. She has written many books, including Women-headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World and Mainstreaming Men in Gender and Development (with Matthew Gutmann).

Nikki Craske is director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool and senior lecturer in Latin American Politics. Her publications include Women and Politics in Latin America (Polity Press and Rutgers University Press) and Gender and the Politics of Rights (coedited with Maxine Molyneux).

"Chant and Craske review gender in Latin American from the 'lost decade' of the 1970s to the present, analyzing the impact of major social changes on gender roles and relations, including demographic transition, family planning, urbanization, declining agriculture, and expanding service sector."
~Choice

An extremely comprehensive text which explores such diverse but often under-represented topics such as gender and sexuality, population aging and its implications, and the effects of neoliberal restructuring. Impeccably referenced, Gender in Latin America will certainly become a key handbook on the subject. ~Cathy McIlwaine, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London

Written by two first-rate researchers who draw on their considerable experience in Latin America to cover a wide range of countries and topics, this excellent volume by Chant and Craske should become a seminal work in Gender and Development, and will be indispensable not only for survey courses but for those wishing to know the major issues in this important and ever-growing field. ~Helen Safa, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida

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