Bodies in Contention
In January 2000, two Chilean architects received a grant from the government's funding organization for culture, Fondart, to construct a ...
Billionaires Against The Press
In June 1999, reports appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Post, and then several other U.S. dailies about ...
Standing Fast in Mexico: Protecting Women’s Rights in a Hostile Climate
In Mexico's presidential election last year, many progressives were seduced into voting for Vicente Fox, candidate of the right-wing National ...
The Eighth Encuentro
In November 1999, feminists from throughout the region convened in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, for the Eighth Latin American and ...
The Body Politic Gender in the New World Order
In past NACLA Reports, our coverage of gender has focused on women's long struggle for equality and, more recently, on ...
Making Fantasies Real: Producing Women and Men on the Maquila Shop Floor
In the early 1990s, I went to Mexico's northern border to study the role of gender in global production.[1] In ...
Machos and Machetes in Guatemala’s Cane Fields
Last year, at 24, Sebastián Tol was a "champion" cane cutter on the agro-export plantations of Guatemala's Pacific coast, averaging ...
Latin America Feminism: Gains, Losses and Hard Times
Peruvian women appear to have made genuine strides during Alberto Fujimori's ten years in power. A Ministry of Women and ...
