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Overview"Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its ""free market"" strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women's participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women's activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and ""unfinished"" cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women's community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist ""issue networks"" in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Lind (University of Cincinnati)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780271025445ISBN 10: 0271025441 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 23 May 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents List of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction 1. Myths of Progress: Gender, Citizenship, and Modernization in Ecuador 2. Ecuadorian Neoliberalisms and Gender Politics in Context 3. Neoliberal Encounters: State Restructuring and the Institutionalization of Women’s Struggles for Survival 4. Women’s Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle 5. Remaking the Nation: Feminist Politics, Populist Nationalism, and the 1998 Constitutional Reforms 6. Making Dollars, Making Feminist Sense of Neoliberalism: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Futures Appendix: Chronology of Events Bibliography IndexReviewsA nuanced and critical reading of gender, development, and globalization issues. Lind's panoramic analysis of Ecuadorian women's negotiations with development projects, the state, neoliberal adjustment policies, and NGOs provides a theoretical framework and an ethnographic account of issues with a global resonance. Exploring the gendered political cultures of development in Ecuador, she analyses the contradictory processes by which gender, institutions, and political movements come together in the uneven process of neoliberal restructuring. - Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge Author InformationAmy Lind is an independent scholar and consultant. She formerly taught in the Women's Studies Program at Arizona State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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