Research Catalog

Title

Estrategias de desarrollo : intentando cambiar la vida / compilación y edición, Patricia Portocarrero Suárez.

Publication

Lima, Perú : Flora Tristán Ediciones, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Portocarrero, Patricia
• Portocarrero, Patricia.

Description

346 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Excellent collection written by anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and lawyers includes studies on changing gender relations and identity; social, political, economic, and personal development; urban and rural work and production; and impacts of violence and civil war on women, gender relations, and development. Vargas' article provides historical context for the collection by looking at women's movements and the different forms of feminism in Latin America. Rivera, using oral tales and urban myths, reveals norms of feminine behavior and the consequences of ignoring those norms. Chávez looks at the growing proportion of women in the informal sector of the labor market. Concludes that despite growing recognition of gender equality, current conditions of poverty, economic crisis and restructuring, and political and street violence have a greater impact on women in their struggles to support themselves and their families"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Subject

• Women in development
• Women in development > Developing countries
• Women in rural development > Developing countries
• Women > Developing countries > Social conditions
• Sex role
• Social change

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

OCLC

• 28944421
• SCSB-12125262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library