UID:
edocfu_9959677546302883
Format:
1 online resource (303 p.)
Series Statement:
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Content:
Asks how and under what circumstances grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research into a Nicaraguan women's organization.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; About the Series; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""Just Us and Our Worms"": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, ""Maria Elena Cuadra""; 2. Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC; 3. Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalization; 4. ""Autonomous but Organized"": MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure; 5. ""Rompiendo Esquemas"": MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone; 6. MEC and the Postsocialist State: Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization
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7. Resistance Goes Global: Power and Opposition in an Age of GlobalizationNotes; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-3565-4
Language:
English
