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A Guide to the Manuscript Collections: Manuscripts relating chiefly to Mexico and Central America
V.1: Pacific and Western manuscripts (except California).
Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Locating watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organized power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making, Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America remedies the lack of such considerations in previous studies of state formation. Along these lines, the book begins with two theoretical chapters by the editors, Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux. Dore opens by arguing against the prevailing view that the nineteenth century was marked by a ...
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La Paz's Colonial Specters
This original study examines a vital but neglected aspect of the 1952 National Revolution in Bolivia; the activism of urban inhabitants. Many of these activists were Aymara-speaking people of indigenous origin who transformed the urban environment, politics and place of “indígenas” and “neighbors” within the city of La Paz. Luis Sierra traces how these urban residents faced racial discrimination and marginalization despite their political support for the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). La Paz's Colonial Specters reassesses the contingent, relational nature of Bolivia's racial categories and the artificial division between urban and rural activists. Building on rich est...
Las políticas sociales de México en los años noventa
Este texto ofrece una amplia visión de la problemática de la atención al bienestar en el marco de los procesos de globalización y del énfasis en la libre competencia en el mercado nacional e internacional en un contexto de crisis del Estado benefactor. Los trabajos aquí reunidos reflexionan sobre documentos y proyectos que contribuirán a conformar el México del próximo siglo; sobre actores e integrantes de las nuevas tendencias sociales; sobre las repercusiones de las medidas de política pública en distintos ámbitos, como el sistema educativo, la seguridad social, el campo, las políticas urbanas, entre otros, y sobre los dilemas y conflictos que plantea la consecución de la equidad social.
