Womens Movements in International Perspective : Latin America and Beyond

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the womens movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analysing Latin American womens movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, womens movements and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and womens movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.