Gender politics in Latin America: debates in theory and practice

Introduction : controversies in gender politics / Elizabeth Dore

Women, work, and empowerment : romanticizing the reality / Sharon McClenaghan

Nicaraguan women : legal, political, and social spaces / Anna M. Fernández Poncela

Public and private spheres : the end of dichotomy / Tessa Cubitt and Helen Greenslade

Engendering human rights / Elizabeth Jelin

"Desde la protesta a la propuesta" : the institutionalization of the women's movement in Chile / Ann Matear

The holy family : imagined households in Latin American history / Elizabeth Dore

The charm of family patterns : historical and contemporary change in Latin America / Ricardo Cicerchia

Sex/gender arrangements and the reproduction of class in the Latin American past / Muriel Nazzari

Reading gender in history / Carmen Ramos Escandón

Problems of definition in theorizing Latin American women's writing / Deborah Shaw

The subversive languages of Carmen Ollé : irony and imagination / William Rowe

From the margins to the center : recent trends in feminist theory in the United States and Latin America / Jean Franco

Gender politics : Luisa Valenzuela's Cola de Lagartija / Claudine Potvin

Post binary bliss : towards a new materialist synthesis? / Nanneke Redclift.