Women’s Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond

Product Description 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. Review This is an important book about big concepts-political interests, social activism in authoritarian states, revolution, and democracy. Choice About the Author Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of the Americas at University College London, UK.