Gender and the politics of rights and democracy in Latin America. (Book Reviews: Gender).(Book Review)

CRASKE, NIKKI & MAXINE MOLYNEUX (eds). Gender and the politics of rights and democracy in Latin America. xv, 226 pp., tables, bibliogrs. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Publishers, 2002. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth)

This volume focuses on the way the discourse of rights has been incorporated into women's movements in Latin America with the return to democracy of the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, thereby bringing different perspectives to bear on the question of the gendering of rights and the relation between formal and substantive ...

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