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From Victims to Agents: A New Generation of Literature on Women in Latin America

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SEX AND SEXUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA. Edited by BalderstonDaniel and GuyDonna J. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. Pp. 288. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

WOMEN AND AGRIBUSINESS: WORKING MIRACLES IN THE CHILEAN FRUIT EXPORT SECTOR. By BarrientosStephanie, AnnaBee, MatearAnn, and VogelIsabel. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. Pp. 231. $72.00 cloth.)

WOMEN-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. By ChantSylvia. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Pp. 338. $69.95 cloth.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Susan Tiano*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

*

I thank Robert Fiala, George Huaco, Perry Pedersen, and Bert Useem for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this essay.

References

1. A significant catalyst for women-in-development scholarship was Ester Boserup's Women's Role in Economic Development (New York: St. Martin's, 1970). Boserup's analysis of how economic development affected Asian, African, and Latin American women shaped the course of first-generation WID research.

2. See Carl G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966), p. 15. I thank George Huaco for calling this work to my attention.