Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Woman in Latin American History

by Gertrude M. Yeager

Overview

Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition.

The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures. The selections are arranged in two sections: Culture and the Status of Women, and Reconstructing the Past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780842024808
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/1997
Series:	Jaguar Books on Latin America , #7
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.28(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.78(d)

Editorial Reviews

A fascinating collection of readings on culture, history, and gender. Playing on the complex relationship between perceptions of women and women's perceptions, Yeager draws from a wide variety of materials to help us understand female roles in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America.

Susan M. Socolow

A fascinating collection of readings on culture, history, and gender. Playing on the complex relationship between perceptions of women and women's perceptions, Yeager draws from a wide variety of materials to help us understand female roles in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America.--Susan M. Socolow, Emory University

From the Publisher

Twenty studies explore how Latin American culture has portrayed and defined women from the time of Columbus to the present through traditional practices, political ideology, intellectual prescriptions, and popular culture; and examine the conditions that actually shape the past and present lives of women at every social level. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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