Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics

Sonia E. Alvarez

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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page vii)
Abbreviations (page ix)
Introduction (page 3)
CHAPTER ONE: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Women's Movements and the State (page 19)
CHAPTER TWO: Women in the New Social Movements of Urban Brazil (page 37)
CHAPTER THREE: Militant Mothers and Insurgent Daughters: Women in the Opposition to Authoritarian Rule (page 57)
CHAPTER FOUR: The Genesis of Women's Movements in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1978 (page 83)
CHAPTER FIVE: The Rise and Fall of a United, Mass-Based Brazilian Women's Movement (page 110)
CHAPTER SIX: Taking Sides: Women's Movements and Political Parties, 1974-1982 (page 137)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Dubious Allies in the Struggle for Women's Rights: Parties and Gender Strategies in the 1982 Campaign (page 161)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Approaching the Authoritarian State: Women's Movements and Population Policy in Transitional Brazilian Politics (page 178)
CHAPTER NINE: Taking Feminism into the State: Gender Policy and the PMDB's Councils on the Status of Women (page 198)
CHAPTER TEN: Women's Movements, Gender Policy, and the Politics of Democratic Consolidation (1985-1988) (page 223)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Conclusion: Engendering Political Change (page 260)
Select Bibliography (page 275)
Index (page 293)

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Published: 1990

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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