Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2022
This review essay was prepared with the support of the UC Davis Washington Center.
1. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972).
2. Sônia E. Alvarez, “The Politics of Gender in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives on Women in the Brazilian Transition to Democracy,” 2 vols., Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1986.
3. Congreso de Investigatión acerca de la Mujer en la Región Andina, edited by Jeanine Anderson de Velasco (Lima: Universidad Católica del Perú, 1983).
4. Temma Kaplan, “Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910–1918,” Signs 7, no. 3 (Spring 1982): 545–66.
5. Suad Joseph, “Working-Class Women's Networks in a Sectarian State: A Political Paradox,” American Ethnologist 10, no. 1 (Feb. 1983): 1–22.
6. See Asunción Lavrin, The Ideology of Feminism in the Southern Cone, 1900–1940, Latin American Program Working Paper no. 169 (Washington, D.C.: Wilson Program, 1986). See also Francesca Miller, “The International Relations of Women of the Americas, 1890–1928,” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 43, no. 2 (Oct. 1986).
7. La Cacerola, Boletín Interno de GRECMU 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1984):1–16. I am grateful to Gwen Kirkpatrick for providing copies of this journal, which is published in Montevideo.
8. Lea Fletcher and Jutta Marx, “Bibliografía de/sobre la mujer argentina a partir de 1980,” Feminaria 2, no. 4 (Nov. 1989):32–34 (published in Buenos Aires).
9. González and Iracheta credit as an inspiring model of this approach to archival material Silvia Marina Arrom's The Women of Mexico City, 1790–1857 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985).
10. See Jean Franco's discussion of this idea in her fine monograph, Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989).
11. Cited in Francesca Miller, Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1991).