Feminism - Transmissions and Retransmissions (Hardcover)

Winner of the 2012 "CHOICE" Outstanding Academic Book award
With the goal of opening up dialogue and debate, "Feminism" presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development of the feminist movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regard to gender, and the nuances of disagreements among feminists. Here in English for the first time, thiswork offers invaluable insight into the theoretical and political tensions that have shaped Mexican feminism and the world at large.