Contents
Preface
Introduction | Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen
Part I. From Colonization to Development and Industrialization: Gender and the Economy
Chapter 1. Colonialism, Structural Subordination, and Empowerment: Women in the Development Process in Latin America and the Caribbean | Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose
Chapter 2. Gender, Industrialization, Transnational Corporations, and Development: An Overview of Trends and Patterns | Kathryn B. Ward and Jean Larson Pyle
Chapter 3. Feminist Inroads in the Study of Women's Work and Development | Luz del Alba Acevedo
Chapter 4. Recasting Women in the Global Economy: Internationalization and Changing Definitions of Gender | M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Saskia Sassen
Chapter 5. Gender, Industrialization, and Development in Puerto Rico | Palmira N. Rios
Part II. Empowering Women: Individual, Household, and Collective Strategies
Chapter 6. Latin American Women in the World Capitalist Crisis | June Nash
Chapter 7. Gender and Multiple Income Strategies in Rural Mexico: A Twenty-Year Perspective | Frances Abrahamer Rothstein
Chapter 8. Gender, Microenterprise, Performance, and Power: Case Studies from the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Swaziland | Rae Lesser Blumberg
Chapter 9. Women's Social Movements in Latin America | Helen Icken Safa
Chapter 10. Revolutionary Popular Feminism in Nicaragua: Ideologies, Political Transitions, and the Struggle for Autonomy | Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
About the Editors and Contributors
Index