Guatemaltecas : : The Women's Movement, 1986–2003 / / Susan A. Berger.

After thirty years of military rule and state-sponsored violence, Guatemala reinstated civilian control and began rebuilding democratic institutions in 1986. Responding to these changes, Guatemalan women began organizing to gain an active role in the national body politic and restructure traditional...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (169 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Face-off: gender, democratization, and globalization
  • Chapter 2 Inside (and) out: home, work, and organizing
  • Chapter 3 La goma elástica: codifying and institutionalizing women in postwar guatemala
  • Chapter 4 T is for Tortillera? sexual minorities and identity politics
  • Chapter 5 The ‘‘swallow industries’’: flight, consumption, and indigestion
  • Chapter 6 Countering discourse: toward resistance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index