Description:
A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities during the late twentieth century into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the cross-cutting influences of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity, rural-urban residence, and migrant status.
Review Quotes: An extremely comprehensive text which explores such diverse but often under-represented topics such as gender and sexuality, population aging and its implications, and the effects of neoliberal restructuring. Impeccably referenced, Gender in Latin America will certainly become a key handbook on the subject.--Cathy McIlwaine "Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London"