WOMEN, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISMS IN LATIN AMERICA by Natividad Gutierrez Chong (Editor) ( 9780754649250 )

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WOMEN, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISMS IN LATIN AMERICA

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Natividad Gutierrez Chong (Editor)

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0754649253

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28 October, 2007

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256

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The relationship between gender and nationalism is a compelling issue that is receiving increasing coverage in the scholarly literature. This book explores these links in the context of Latin America. It offers a view of various political and cultural issues. It covers the debate on multiculturalism and gender in the construction of the nation.

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The relationship between gender and nationalism is a compelling issue that is receiving increasing coverage in the scholarly literature. With case studies covering Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, this is the first book to explore these links in the context of Latin America. It includes contributions from Latin American scholars to offer a unique and revealing view of the most important political and cultural issues. The work opens by outlining four dimensions in the relationship between gender and nationalism. These are: the contribution of women to nation building and their exclusion from it by the state and its institutions; the role of women in contemporary ethnic and nationalist movements; the place of the female body in the myths and traditions surrounding the nation; and the role of women in forging the intellectual and artistic culture of the nation.It then provides both theoretical and empirical explorations of these themes, with chapters covering the debate on multiculturalism and gender in the construction of the nation, the struggles of ethnic women to participate politically in their communities and studies of the first Mexican filmmaker, Mimi Derrba and the indigenous heroine Dolores Cacuango from Ecuador.

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