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I N D E X Action for the Women’s Movement (Acción por el Movimiento de Mujeres), 50 agrarian reform, 25 n. 1 Alvarez, Sonia, 93, 95, 111, 132 amm. See Action for the Women’s Movement Barrig, Maruja, 57 Barrios de Chungara, Domitila, 148 Basu, Amrita, 100 Bayard de Volo, Lorraine, 107–8 Benerı́a, Lourdes, 71, 110 Better, Pablo, 75 Bobbitt, Lorena, 113, 117 Borja, Rodrigo, 71–77 Boserup, Ester, 37 n. 13 Brodie, Janine, 91 Bucaram, Abdalá, 113–17 Bucaram de Roldós, Martha, 43 Butler, Judith, 10, 120 Cacuango, Dolores, 34, 34 n. 10 Calderón, Fernando, 13 Center for Planning and Social Studies (Centro de Planificación y Estudios Sociales), 106 Center of Women’s Information and Support (Centro de Información y Apoyo de la Mujer), 46–47 Centro Cultural Pájara Pinta, 47 Centro Femenino ‘‘8 de Marzo,’’ 100–104, 111–12 cepam. See Ecuadorian Center for Women’s Promotion and Action ceplaes. See Center for Planning and Social Studies Chillogallo, District of, women’s organizing in, 97 Colectivo Identidad, 47 conamu. See National Women’s Council ciam. See Center of Women’s Information and Support Citibank, 69–70, 78 citizenship, and women’s voting rights, 26 Clark, Kim, 32 n. 7 Code of Minors, 36 Colectivo Eva de la Manzana, 46 communal kitchens, 57, 66 Community Network for Child Development (rcdi), 77–84 Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indı́genas del Ecuador), 115 n. 5, 141 conaie. See Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador constitutional reform and 1998 Constitution, 7 and feminist organizing, 130, 140–43 and indigenous organizing, 140–43 Cooperativa de Vendedores Ambulantes, District of, women’s organizations in, 81 corfec. See Ecuadorian Feminine Corporation cpme. See Ecuadorian Women’s Political Network Craske, Nikki, 103 n. 9 cultural politics defined as, 15–17 De la Torre, Carlos, 120 De Soto, Hernando, 73 n. 2 Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática), 71 democratization. See women’s organizing and democratization development and petroleum, 38–39, 38 n. 15 historical process of, 3, 24–25, 37–41 hierarchies in, 14 regional, 24–25 dinamu. See National Women’s Bureau dollarization, 7 and gender inequalities, 140 and neoliberal reforms, 139 180 index dollarization (continued) effects of, 8, 137–40 policy of, 136–37 Durán-Ballén, Sixto neoliberal reforms implemented by, 84–87 and modernization plan, 85 and privatization, 85–86 economic debt. See foreign debt economic restructuring and male bias, 64 feminist theories of, 16, 91, 149–52 Economic Front (Frente Económico), 75, 84 Ecuadorian Center for Women’s Promotion and Action (Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de la Mujer), 47, 106 Ecuadorian Feminine Corporation (Corporacio ́n Femenina Ecuatoriana), 45 Ecuadorian Women’s Political Network (Coordinadora Polı́tica de Mujeres Ecuatorianas ), 67, 120–19 Elson, Diane, 64 n. 8 Emergency Social Investment Fund (fise), 76, 84, 87–89 empowerment, feminist theories of, 95 engendering (also engender, engendered) defined as, 18 n. 13 strategies of, 120–24. See also state, engendering of Escobar, Arturo, 1 essentialism, 10, 16 n. 12 and gender identity politics, 104 ethnodevelopment, 59–60 external debt. See foreign debt Febres-Cordero, León, 55, 72 female political quota, 121, 129 Feminine Action of Pichincha (Acción Femenina de Pichincha), 33 feminism, 12 n. 8 and indigenous rights, 141 n. 8 autonomous, 125–26, 130 early debates over, 26–29 institutionalized versus autonomous, 11 n. 6, 14, 130, 132 waves of, 27 strands of, 21 n. 14, 115 feminist issue networks, 9–10 Feminists for Autonomy (Feministas por la Autonom ı́a), 11, 125–26, 130 Ferguson, James, 67 n. 10 fise. See Emergency Social Investment Fund flacso. See Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences fnpme. See National Permanent Forum of Ecuadorian Women fonnin. See National Fund for Child Nutrition and Protection foreign debt, 40, 53 gender dimensions of, 55–57 protest against, 69, 69 n. 1 and social debt, 73 and social spending, 74 sucretization of, 40 foreign remittances, 8 gad. See gender and development Gangotena, Carmen, 50 gender and development versus wid and wad, 37 n. 13 gender identity politics, 17–22 and feminism, 104–9 gender needs, 97 gender technocracy, 11, 125, 130 General Secretariat of Volunteer Service (Secretariado General de Servicio Voluntario ), 44 Glorious May Revolution, women’s participation in, 33–34, 34 n. 11 Gutiérrez, Lucio, 136 Hidalgo, Matilde, 30 Hurtado, Osvaldo, 40 n. 16, 55 ID. See Democratic Left International Feminine...

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