Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

Contents

C O N T E N T S preface and acknowledgments ix list of acronyms xiii Introduction 1 1 Myths of Progress: Citizenship, Modernization, and Women’s Rights Struggles in Ecuador 23 2 Ecuadorian Neoliberalisms and Gender Politics in Context 53 3 Neoliberal Encounters: State Restructuring and the Institutionalization of Women’s Struggles for Survival 69 4 Women’s Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle 93 5 Remaking the Nation: Feminist Politics, Populist Nationalism, and the 1998 Constitutional Reforms 113 6 Making Dollars, Making Feminist Sense of Neoliberalism: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Futures 135 Appendix: Chronology of Events 153 bibliography 155 index 179 ...