Gender impacts on every major social issue from rights to social policy, from ethnicity to poverty, this work is a comprehensive overview of the subject, examining trends in gender over history until the present. The authors draw on a wide range on theoretial analyses as well as their own field of work to illuminate the importance of diversity in gender in Latin America, as well as more traditionally held concepts of class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide and age and peer groups. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, this text charts contemporary changes gender roles, relations between the genders, and gender- and sexuality-based identities. Chapters are arranged around broad themes, including gender and poverty, gender and health, gender and sexuality and gender and employment. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the core issues the debates and theoretical work in the relevant field, and case studies. The authors also make reference to the continually expanding literature on the subject, including work on men and masculinity, fatherhood and sexuality.

Prelims - Gender in Latin America (Title Page, Copyright Information, Contents, List of Table, Boxes and Figures, Acronyms, Glossary of Latin American Terms, Preface and Acknowledgements, Foreword)
1. Introduction: Gender in a Changing Continent
Sylvia Chant
2. Gender, Politics and Legislation
Nikki Craske
3. Gender, Poverty and Social Movements
Nikki Craske
4. Gender and Population
Sylvia Chant
5. Gender and Health
Sylvia Chant
6. Gender and Sexuality
Sylvia Chant with Nikki Craske
7. Gender, Families and Households
Sylvia Chant
8. Gender and Employment
Sylvia Chant
9. Gender and Migration
Sylvia Chant
10. Conclusion - Gender in Latin America: Looking to the Future
Sylvia Chant
Back Matter - Gender in Latin America (Notes, Bibliography, Index)

Sylvia Chant
Sylvia Chant is a professor of Developmental Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is the Programme Director of the Urbanisation and Development Programme at the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment

Nikki Craske