Gender in Latin America is a comprehensive state-of-the-art review
of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions.
The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own
field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender
roles, relations, and identities during the late twentieth century
into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing
stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the
cross-cutting influences of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity,
rural-urban residence, and migrant status. Each of the book's
thematic chapters--on politics, poverty, population, health,
sexuality, families and households, employment, and
migration--begins with an introduction to core issues and
theoretical debates in the respective field. In the discussions
which follow, up-to-date statistical evidence on Latin America is
accompanied by detailed case studies that bring alive the richly
varied experiences of women and men in a region undergoing
profound, and frequently conflictive, transformation. The extensive
bibliography reflects not only the critical contributions made by
feminist scholarship in and on Latin America over the last three
decades, but new bodies of literature on men and masculinities,
fatherhood, and sexuality. Sylvia Chant is professor of development
geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Her recent books include Women-headed Households: Diversity and
Dynamics in the Developing World (Macmillan) and Mainstreaming Men
into Gender and Development (with Matthew Gutmann) (Oxfam). Nikki
Craske is senior lecturer in politics and director of the Institute
of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, and author of
Women and Politics in Latin America (Rutgers University Press).
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