Gender in Latin America |
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| Author:
| Chant, Sylvia |
| As told to:
| Craske, Nikki |
| Foreword by:
| de la Rocha, Mercedes |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3196-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities during the late twentieth century into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the cross-cutting influences of age, class,...
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A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities during the late twentieth century into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the cross-cutting influences of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity, rural-urban residence, and migrant status.