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<p>This reader reflects the&nbsp; genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country.&nbsp; It collects the voices of forty-one diverse women who live in Costa Rica, some radical, others strongly conservative, and most ranging inbetween, as they write about their lives, their problems, their aspirations.</p> <p>Unlike the comparative studies of women’s issues that look at several different countries, the reader provides an insider’s view of one small, but quintessentially Latin American, society.&nbsp; These women write of their own experience in organizing and working for change within the Costa Rican community.&nbsp; Some represent groups fitting into traditional “women’s movement” that wants to improve certain aspects of women’s&nbsp; and families’ daily lives.&nbsp; Still others, the “feminists,” argue forcefully that true improvement requires a profound change of power relations in society, of women’s access to power and decision making.</p> <p>The articles are organized into thematic groups that range from the definitions of Feminism in Costa Rica to women in Costa Rican&nbsp; history, women’s legal equality, discrimination against women, and

Author

Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, editor and translator

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press; Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt)

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822955436

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology