Engendering Democracy in Brazil : : Women's Movements in Transition Politics / / Sonia E. Alvarez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Alvarez, Sonia E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Women's Movements and the State
• Chapter Two. Women in the New Social Movements of Urban Brazil
• Chapter Three. Militant Mothers and Insurgent Daughters: Women in the Opposition to Authoritarian Rule
• Chapter Four. The Genesis of Women's Movements in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1978
• Chapter Five. The Rise and Fall of a United, Mass-Based Brazilian Women's Movement
• Chapter Six. Taking Sides: Women's Movements and Political Parties, 1974- 1982
• Chapter Seven. Dubious Allies in the Struggle for Women's Rights: Parties and Gender Strategies in the 1982 Campaign
• Chapter Eight. Approaching the Authoritarian State: Women's Movements and Population Policy in Transitional Brazilian Politics
• Chapter Nine.2 Taking Feminism into the State: Gender Policy and the PMDB's Councils on the Status of Women
• Chapter Ten. Women's Movements, Gender Policy, and the Politics of Democratic Consolidation (1985-1988)
• Chapter Eleven. Conclusion: Engendering Political Change
• Select Bibliography
• Index