Gender and populism in Latin America : passionate politics
Analyzes populist movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela from a gender perspective. Considers the role of masculinity and femininity in populist leadership, the impact of populism on democracy and feminism, and women's critical roles as followers of these leaders. --From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2010
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park (Pennsylvania), 2010
xiv, 254 p.
9780271037097, 9780271037103, 0271037091, 0271037105
733967031
Foreword / Kurt Weyland
Introduction/ Karen Kampwirth
The politics of opportunity: Mexican populism under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría / Jocelyn Olcott
Changing images of male and female in Ecuador: José María Velasco Ibarra and Abdalá Bucaram / Ximena Sosa-Buchholz
Gender, clientelistic populism, and memory : Somocista and neo-Somocista women's narratives in liberal Nicaragua / Victoria González-Rivera
From working mothers to housewives: gender and Brazilian populism from Getúlio Vargasto to Juscelino Kubitschek / Joel Wolfe
Women and populism in Brazil / Michael Conniff
Populist continuities in "revolutionary" Peronism? A comparative analysis of the gender discourses of the first Peronism (1946-1955) and the Montoneros / Karin Grammático
Populism frmo above, populism from below: gender politics under Alberto Fujimori and Evo Morales / Stéphanie Rousseau
Populism and the feminist challenge in Nicaragua: the return of Daniel Ortega / Karen Kampwirth
Waking women up? Hugo Chávez, populism, and Venezuela's "popular" women / Gioconda Espina and Cathy A. Rakowski
Gender, popular participation, and the state in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes
A few concluding thoughts / Karen Kampwirth
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