Companeras
Voices from the Latin American Women's Movement
An upsurge of women's activism across Latin America has provoked vigorous discussions about feminism, machismo and the whole process of social change. Companeras brings together activists from thirteen different countries to speak directly about their experiences and aspirations in the women's movement presenting a unique overview of current debates amongst Latin American women activists.
Published: 1993
Pages: 192
eBook: 9781909013070
Paperback: 9780906156865
Hardback: 9780906156872
INTRODUCTION | |||
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FOREWORD | |||
AUTONOMY | |||
Margarita Munoz (Panama) | |||
Fighting machismo and US intervention | |||
Jael Bueno (Bolivia) | |||
'No one wants to be machista anymore.' The rise of Bolivian feminism | |||
Yance Urbina (El Salvador) | |||
Building a feminist organisation inside the social movement | |||
Alba de Mejia (Honduras) | |||
Demanding women's rights in the shadow of the military | |||
Olga Benoit and Marie Frantz Joachim (Haiti) | |||
SOFA: A forum for rural women and market sellers | |||
DEBATING THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT | |||
Elizabeth Maier (Mexico) | |||
Sex and class as a single entity | |||
Carmen Alicia Echeverry, Nedier Gamba, Gladys Lagos (Colombia) | |||
In support of steelworkers: a wives' or women's organisation? | |||
Maritza Villavicencio (Peru) | |||
The feminist movement and the social movement: willing partners? | |||
Maria Amelia Teles (Brazil) | |||
A feminist perspective on power and population control | |||
RECLAIMING POLITICS | |||
Marfa Dirlene T. Marques (Brazil) | |||
Feminists in the Workers' Party | |||
Petrona Coronel (Paraguay) | |||
Women leading the Paraguay Peasants' Movement | |||
Claudia Colimoro (Mexico) | |||
A prostitute's election campaign | |||
Marfa Teresa Blandon (Nicaragua) | |||
The impact on the Sandinista defeat on Nicaraguan feminism | |||
Carolina Aguilar and Alicia Chenard (Cuba) | |||
Is there a place for feminism in the revolution? | |||
HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS | |||
Rosalina Tuyuc (Guatemala) | |||
From grief comes strength: indigenous women's resistance | |||
Rosario Ibarra (Mexico) | |||
The search for disappeared sons: how it changed the mothers | |||
Chabela (Vicenta) Camusso (Uruguay) | |||
Black women in a white world: the search for a new identity | |||
Lady Elizabeth Repetto (Uruguay) | |||
Women against violence against women | |||
Eulalia Yagarf Gonzalez (Colombia) | |||
The right to love and politics: an indigenous activist's perspective | |||
FEMINIST PUBLICATIONS | |||
Zoila Hernandez (Peru) | |||
Mujer y Sociedad: writing for a mass audience | |||
Lucy Garrido and Lilian Abracinskas (Uruguay) | |||
Cotidiano Mujer: a platform for the women's movement | |||
Marta Lamas (Mexico) | |||
Debate Feminista: a bridge between academia and activism | |||
Berta Hiriart (Mexico) | |||
mujerlfempress: Latin American women's news agency | |||
WHERE NEXT? | |||
Gladys Acosta (Peru) | |||
Feminism and the New World Order | |||
Sofia Montenegro (Nicaragua) | |||
The future from a female point of view | |||
Acronyms | |||
Resources and Action | |||
Index | |||
Further Reading |
Gaby Küppers Gaby Küppers is an editor at the Information Bureau for Latin America in Bonn.
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