Engendering democracy in Brazil : women's movements in transition politics / Sonia E. Alvarez.
"Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most succ...
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[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Women's Movements and the State
- Women in the New Social Movements of Urban Brazil
- Militant Mothers and Insurgent Daughters: Women in the Opposition to Authoritarian Rule
- The Genesis of Women's Movements in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1978
- The Rise and Fall of a United, Mass-Based Brazilian Women's Movement
- Taking Sides: Women's Movements and Political Parties, 1974-1982
- Dubious Allies in the Struggle for Women's Rights: Parties and Gender Strategies in the 1982 Campaign
- Approaching the Authoritarian State: Women's Movements and Population Policy in Transitional Brazilian Politics
- Taking Feminism into the State: Gender Policy and the PMDB's Councils on the Status of Women
- Women's Movements, Gender Policy, and the Politics of Democratic Consolidation (1985-1988)
- Conclusion: Engendering Political Change.