Women in Latin America and the Caribbean - Restoring Women to History

" Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.

About the author

Marysa Navarro is Charles Collis Professor of History and chair of the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She has written a biography of Eva Peron, on the feminist movement in Latin America, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and on women and democracy in Latin America.
Virginia Sa(accute)nchez Korrol is professor and chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and director of the Center for Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She has written numerous book chapters on U. S. Latinas. She is best known for From Colonia to Community: The History of
Puerto Ricans in New York City. More recently she co-edited Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage.
Kecia Ali is in Duke University's graduate program in religion. She is the author of "The Historiography of Women in Modern Latin America: An Overview and Bibliography of the Recent Literature" in the Duke University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies working paper series.

Summary

Examines the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America. This book looks at early indigenous societies along with the Spanish and the Portuguese, noting the interaction of race and class. It illustrates the dynamics through portraits of individual women and their legal status and economic roles.

Product details

• Authors: Kecia Ali, Ali Kecia, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Marysa Navarro, Navarro Marysa, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Sanchez Korrol Virginia
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.1999
• EAN: 9780253213075
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21307-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 304 g
• Illustrations: 6 maps
• Series: Restoring Women to History; Restoring Women to History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)