The Costa Rican women's movement : a reader / Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, editor and translator.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen, editor, translator.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Costa Rica.

Feminism.

Women--Costa Rica--Economic conditions.

Women.

Women--Costa Rica--Social conditions.

Equality--Costa Rica.

Equality.

Sex discrimination against women--Costa Rica.

Sex discrimination against women.

Costa Rica.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Thirty-four short contributions make this akin to a reference work, albeit one varying greatly in flavor, topic, and scholarliness, i.e., from group self-promotion to politico-legal endorsements to scholarly pieces. Among the scholarly topics: colonial women, 19th-century women, feminist organizational theorizing, popular music, caesarean births, and women at the Univ. de Costa Rica (where they are one-third of faculty). Almost all social-feminist topics are touched on, save perhaps language; sexuality, violence, disability, class/race/gender, art and artists, and more"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

Contents:

Different times, women, visions: the deep roots of Costa Rican feminism / Yadira Calvo Fajardo

The group Ventana: an assessment / Rosalía Camacho, Alda Facio Montejo, and Ligia Martín

Improving the quality of women's daily lives: Costa Rica's Centro Feminista de Información y Acción / Ana Carcedo, Montserrat Sagot, and Marta Trejos

The Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses, a popular movement: an impassioned plea for action-oriented feminism / Ana Hernández

Women's liberation from servitude and overprotection / Carmen Naranjo Coto

Women in colonial Costa Rica: a significant presence / Cora Ferro Calabrese and Ana María Quirós Rojas

Contradictory aspects of Costa Rican women's history during the nineteenth century / Clotilde Obregón Quesada

The suffragist movement in Costa Rica, 1889-1949: centennial of democracy? / Sara Sharratt.

Unusual Costa Rican women: three who were proclaimed "distinguished citizens of the nation" / Ana Isabel Gamboa Hernández and Sara Gurfinkiel Hermann

Peasant women's autobiographies: women's double contribution to the rural economy / Zaira Escamilla Gutierrez and Lorena Vargas Mora

The law and women's lives: contradictions and struggles / Tatiana Soto Cabrera

Negotiating women's legal equality: four versions of a law / Aixa Ansorena Montero

Leading arguments against women's legal equality: highlights of a national debate / Ana Elena Badilla Gómez

Redefining political equality: more than including women / Alda Facio Montejo

Women heads of household in Costa Rica's Limón Province: the effects of class modified by race and gender / Eugenia Loṕez-Casas

The lesbian feminist group Las Entendidas / Paquita Cruz

Women with disabilities: between sexism and handicappism / Paula Antezana Rimassa.

Never to cry alone again: women and violence in Costa Rica / Ana Carcedo

Father-daughter incest: case studies in Costa Rica / Gioconda Batres Mendez

Peace Corps volunteers see working-class women's realities / Jessica Brown [and others]

Women as leaders in the Costa Rican cooperative movement / Mireya Jimenez Guerra

The struggle for housing in Costa Rica: the transformation of women into political actors / Montserrat Sagot

Long-term survival of a Costa Rican women's crafts cooperative: approaches to problems of rapid growth at CASEM in the Santa Elena-Monteverde region / Ilse Abshagen Leitinger

Reconceptualizing the theory of women in organizations: contributions of feminist analysis / Laura Guzmán Stein

Feminist visions: four women artists in Costa Rica / Sally R. Felton

Women and love: myths and stereotypes in popular songs broadcast in Costa Rica / Sandra Castro Paniagua and Luisa Gonçalves.

Yadira Calvo: Costa Rican feminist writer par excellence / Sonia de la Cruz Malavassi

From CIEM to IEM: the consolidation of women's studies at the Universidad Nacional / Cora Ferro Calabrese

Gender studies at the Universidad de Costa Rica / Laura Guzmán Stein

CSUCA's approach to women's studies and its projected program in Central America / Helga Jimenez

Timely, relevant, trustworthy, precise, ongoing: toward a gender-in-development information network / Mafalda Sibille Martina

Women's presence in the university: the case of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia / Matilda López Núñez

Problems of joint interdisciplinary research in women's studies: an effort to integrate disciplines for more fruitful analysis / Margarita Brenes Fonseca, May Brenes Marín, and Sandra Castro Paniagua

The predictability of cesarean-section births: a case study of students in Costa Rican childbirth classes / Jennifer Kozlow-Rodríguez.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822971627

0822971623

OCLC:

891385730