Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest
military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is
distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed
the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse,
most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary
Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of
progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political
repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and
it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final
stages of regime transition in the 1980s.
Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the
author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political
change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her
engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social
justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men
in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book
essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American
politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and
women's studies and feminist political theory.
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