Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America - Seminar on Feminism and Culture in Latin America

“This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American women’s history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.”—Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About the author

Emilie Bergmann is a specialist in Spanish Golden Age literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Berkeley. Janet Greenberg is an executive associate of the American Council of Learned Societies in New York. Gwen Kirkpatrick teaches Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. Francine Masiello teaches Latin American and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Francesca Miller teaches inter-American relations and women's history at the University of California at Davis. Marta Morello-Frosch teaches Latin American literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Kathleen Newman teaches Latin American film and mass communications theory at the University of Iowa. Mary Louise Pratt teaches comparative literature and literary theory at Stanford University. 

Summary

A collection that examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history.

Product details

• Authors: Emilie Bergmann, Emilie Greenberg Bergmann, Emilie L. Bergmann, Emilie L. Greenberg Bergmann, Janet Greenberg, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Francine Masiello, Fransesca Miller, Marta Morello-Frosch, Kathleen Newman, Mary Louise Pratt, Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America, Seminar on Feminism &. Cul, Uc-stanford
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.1992
• EAN: 9780520065536
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06553-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; South America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory