Research Catalog

Title

The Costa Rican women's movement : a reader / Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, editor and translator.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen.

Description

xix, 366 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

"Thirty-four short contributions make this akin to a reference work, albeit one varying greatly in flavor, topic, and scholarliness, i.e., from group self-promotion to politico-legal endorsements to scholarly pieces. Among the scholarly topics: colonial women, 19th-century women, feminist organizational theorizing, popular music, caesarean births, and women at the Univ. de Costa Rica (where they are one-third of faculty). Almost all social-feminist topics are touched on, save perhaps language; sexuality, violence, disability, class/race/gender, art and artists, and more"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Series Statement

Pitt Latin American series

Uniform Title

Pitt Latin American series

Subject

• Feminism > Costa Rica
• Women > Costa Rica > Economic conditions
• Women > Costa Rica > Social conditions
• Equality > Costa Rica
• Sex discrimination against women > Costa Rica
• 71.38 social movements
• Feminismo > Costa Rica
• Mujeres > Costa Rica > Situación social
• Equality
• Feminism
• Sex discrimination against women
• Women > Economic conditions
• Women > Social conditions
• Frauenbewegung
• Vrouwenbeweging
• Women > Costa Rica
• Frauenbewegung
• Costa Rica
• Costa Rica

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Different times, women, visions: the deep roots of Costa Rican feminism / Yadira Calvo Fajardo -- The group Ventana: an assessment / Rosalía Camacho, Alda Facio Montejo, and Ligia Martín -- Improving the quality of women's daily lives: Costa Rica's Centro Feminista de Información y Acción / Ana Carcedo, Montserrat Sagot, and Marta Trejos -- The Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses, a popular movement: an impassioned plea for action-oriented feminism / Ana Hernández -- Women's liberation from servitude and overprotection / Carmen Naranjo Coto -- Women in colonial Costa Rica: a significant presence / Cora Ferro Calabrese and Ana María Quirós Rojas -- Contradictory aspects of Costa Rican women's history during the nineteenth century / Clotilde Obregón Quesada -- The suffragist movement in Costa Rica, 1889-1949: centennial of democracy? / Sara Sharratt.
• Unusual Costa Rican women: three who were proclaimed "distinguished citizens of the nation" / Ana Isabel Gamboa Hernández and Sara Gurfinkiel Hermann -- Peasant women's autobiographies: women's double contribution to the rural economy / Zaira Escamilla Gutiérrez and Lorena Vargas Mora -- The law and women's lives: contradictions and struggles / Tatiana Soto Cabrera -- Negotiating women's legal equality: four versions of a law / Aixa Ansorena Montero -- Leading arguments against women's legal equality: highlights of a national debate / Ana Elena Badilla Gómez -- Redefining political equality: more than including women / Alda Facio Montejo -- Women heads of household in Costa Rica's Limón Province: the effects of class modified by race and gender / Eugenia Loṕez-Casas -- The lesbian feminist group Las Entendidas / Paquita Cruz -- Women with disabilities: between sexism and handicappism / Paula Antezana Rimassa.
• Never to cry alone again: women and violence in Costa Rica / Ana Carcedo -- Father-daughter incest: case studies in Costa Rica / Gioconda Batres Méndez -- Peace Corps volunteers see working-class women's realities / Jessica Brown [and others] -- Women as leaders in the Costa Rican cooperative movement / Mireya Jiménez Guerra -- The struggle for housing in Costa Rica: the transformation of women into political actors / Montserrat Sagot -- Long-term survival of a Costa Rican women's crafts cooperative: approaches to problems of rapid growth at CASEM in the Santa Elena-Monteverde region / Ilse Abshagen Leitinger -- Reconceptualizing the theory of women in organizations: contributions of feminist analysis / Laura Guzmán Stein -- Feminist visions: four women artists in Costa Rica / Sally R. Felton -- Women and love: myths and stereotypes in popular songs broadcast in Costa Rica / Sandra Castro Paniagua and Luisa Gonçalves.
• Yadira Calvo: Costa Rican feminist writer par excellence / Sonia de la Cruz Malavassi -- From CIEM to IEM: the consolidation of women's studies at the Universidad Nacional / Cora Ferro Calabrese -- Gender studies at the Universidad de Costa Rica / Laura Guzmán Stein -- CSUCA's approach to women's studies and its projected program in Central America / Helga Jiménez -- Timely, relevant, trustworthy, precise, ongoing: toward a gender-in-development information network / Mafalda Sibille Martina -- Women's presence in the university: the case of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia / Matilda López Núñez -- Problems of joint interdisciplinary research in women's studies: an effort to integrate disciplines for more fruitful analysis / Margarita Brenes Fonseca, May Brenes Marín, and Sandra Castro Paniagua -- The predictability of cesarean-section births: a case study of students in Costa Rican childbirth classes / Jennifer Kozlow-Rodríguez.

ISBN

• 0822938626
• 9780822938620
• 0822955431
• 9780822955436

LCCN

94041579

OCLC

• ocm31435350
• 31435350
• SCSB-2128277

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library