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Title Taking risks : feminist activism and research in the Americas / edited by Julie Shayne ; foreword by Margaret Randall.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 335 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series, praxis: theory in action
SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- About the cover -- Monument to civilians massacred at Plaza de Mayo / Nora Patrich -- Foreword -- The thing about taking risks / Margaret Randall -- Introduction -- Research, risk, and activism : feminists' stories of social justice / Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle -- Section onepart one: texts, stories, and activism -- Writing and activism / Carmen Rodríguez -- Absence in memories : reading stories of survival in Argentina / Mahala Lettvin -- Chilean exiles and their feminist stories / Julie Shayne -- Navigating the Cuban ideological divide : research on the independent libraries movement / Marisela Fleites-Lear -- Section twopart two: performed stories of social justice -- We also built the city of Medellín : Deplazadas' family albums as feminist archival activism / Tamera Marko -- Who owns the archive? : community media in contemporary Venezuela / Robin Garcia -- Echoes of injustice : performative activism and the femicide plaguing Ciudad Juárez / Christina Marín -- Section threepart three: activist stories from the grassroots -- Feminist tensions : race, sex work, and women/s activism in Bahia / Erica Lorraine Williams -- Latina battered immigrants, citizenship and inequalities : reflections on activist research / Roberta Villalón -- Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua : voices of the Compañeras / Shelly Grabe -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Mother's day / Julie Shayne -- About the authorscontributors -- Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Feminism -- North America -- History.
Feminism.
North America.
History.
Feminism -- South America -- History.
South America.
Social justice -- North America -- History.
Social justice.
Social justice -- South America -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Added Author Shayne, Julie, 1966- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Taking risks 9781438452456 (DLC) 2013030255 (OCoLC)856579528
ISBN 9781438452470 (electronic book)
1438452470 (electronic book)
9781438452456
1438452454