Women’s Movements in International Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-12

3. ‘No God, No Boss, No Husband!’ Anarchist Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Argentina

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   Pages 13-37

4. Mobilisation without Emancipation? Women’s Interests, the State and Revolution in Nicaragua

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   Pages 38-59

5. The Politics of Abortion in Nicaragua: Revolutionary Pragmatism — or Feminism in the Realm of Necessity?

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   Pages 60-75

6. State, Gender and Institutional Change: The Federación de Mujeres Cubanas

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   Pages 76-98

7. State Socialism and Women’s Emancipation: A Continuing Retrospective

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   Pages 99-139

8. Analysing Women’s Movements

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   Pages 140-162

9. Gender and Citizenship in Latin America: Historical and Contemporary Issues

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   Pages 163-202

10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-244

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The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analysing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and women's movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.

• development studies
• evaluation
• feminism
• gender
• Institution
• interaction
• Nation
• politics
• revolution
• socialism
• sociology
• women
• latin american politics

This is an important book about big concepts-political interests, social activism in authoritarian states, revolution, and democracy. Choice

• Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, UK

  Maxine Molyneux

Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of the Americas at University College London, UK.

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