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"An extensive and powerful literature on religion, society, and politics in Latin America in recent years has begun with the assumption that most of the movements that surged in the struggle against military rule are dead, that most of the activists are scattered and burned out, and that the promise of civil society as a source of new values and a new kind of citizenship and political life was illusory. Many have assumed that the religiously inspired activism of that period left little lasting impact, but hardly anyone has actually looked at the activists themselves to see what remains, how they cope in a different, more open environment, and how they see and act on the present and future. A...
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
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Este libro reúne una serie de estudios temáticos y de casos que recorren los temas cruciales que componen el marco actual de la agenda en favor de la equidad de género aplicada a las políticas sociales en América Latina. Este segundo tomo presenta los problemas sociales referidos a sistemas de seguridad social, políticas de conciliación trabajo-familia y de superación de la pobreza. Además, desarrolla un apartado sobre problemas metodológicos que son frecuentes en la aplicación de la perspectiva de género al campo de las políticas públicas.