'Viva' : women and popular protest in Latin America

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Content: 1. Gender, racism and the politics of identities in Latin America / Sallie Westwood and Sarah A. Radcliffe -- 2. The seeking of truth and the gendering of consciousness : the comadres of El Salvador and the Conavigua widows of Guatemala / Jennifer Schirmer -- 3. Ecologia : women, environment and politics in Venezuela / Mara?-Pilar Garca? Guadilla -- 4. 'We learned to think politically' : the influence of the Catholic Church and the feminist movement on the emergence of the health movement of the Jardim Nordeste area in So? Paulo, Brazil / Leda Maria Vieira Machado -- 5. Women's political participation in Colonias Populares in Guadalajara, Mexico / Nikki Craske -- 6. Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? : women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- 7. Touching the air : the cultural force of women in Chile / Catherine M. Boyle -- 8. Adjustment from below : low-income women, time and the triple role in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline O.N. Moser -- 9. 'People have to rise up : like the great women fighters' : the state and peasant women in Peru / Sarah A. Radcliffe.