| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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American encounters/global interactions |
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American encounters/global interactions.
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E-Duke books scholarly collection
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| Contents |
"Just us and our worms": the working and unemployed women's movement, "María Elena Cuadra" -- Oppositional politics in Nicaragua and the formation of MEC -- Gendering power and resistance in an era of globalization -- "Autonomous but organized": MEC's search for an organizational structure -- "Rompiendo esquemas": MEC's political strategies and the free trade zone -- MEC and the postsocialist state: democracy, rights, and citizenship under globalization -- Resistance goes global: power and opposition in an age of globalization |
| Summary |
Jennifer Bickham Mendez looks at how grassroots organisations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research, centred on Nicaragua |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas "María Elena Cuadra."
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| SUBJECT |
Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas "María Elena Cuadra" fast (OCoLC)fst01553372 |
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Women's rights -- Nicaragua -- Societies, etc
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Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Nicaragua
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Sex differences -- Nicaragua
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women offshore assembly industry workers.
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Women's rights -- Societies, etc.
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Nicaragua.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822387305 |
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0822387301 |
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