Karen Kampwirth is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at Knox College. Her two previous books with Penn State Press are Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba (2003) and, co-edited with Victoria González, Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right (2001).

“The case studies in this book offer a compelling and nuanced view of a multifaceted reality: populism is extremely difficult to grasp, both theoretically and empirically, and its complexity and ambiguity also apply to its gendered underpinnings. As the more general debate still unfolds as to whether Latin American populism is or has been a liberating or a controlling force toward the disfranchised masses, the same uncertainty prevails regarding its effects on women. Given the elusive nature of the topic itself, this book as a whole may raise more questions than it answers, but the editor and each of the individual contributors have done an outstanding job in giving the reader highly useful and intelligent insights into the role that gender plays in Latin American politics.”—Victor Armony, Université du Québec à Montréal

• ContentsForewordKurt WeylandAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Kampwirth1The Politics of Opportunity: Mexican Populism Under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis EcheverríaJocelyn Olcott2Changing Images of Male and Female in Ecuador: José María Velasco Ibarra and Abdalá BucaramXimena Sosa-Buchholz3Gender, Clientelistic Populism, and Memory: Somocista and Neo-Somocista Women’s Narratives in Liberal NicaraguaVictoria González-Rivera4From Working Mothers to Housewives: Gender and Brazilian Populism from Getúlio Vargas to Juscelino KubitschekJoel Wolfe5Women and Populism in BrazilMichael Conniff6Populist Continuities in “Revolutionary” Peronism? A Comparative Analysis of the Gender Discourses of the First Peronism (1946–1955) and the MontonerosKarin Grammático7Populism from Above, Populism from Below: Gender Politics Under Alberto Fujimori and Evo MoralesStéphanie Rousseau8Populism and the Feminist Challenge in Nicaragua: The Return of Daniel OrtegaKaren Kampwirth9Waking Women Up? Hugo Chávez, Populism, and Venezuela’s “Popular” WomenGioconda Espina and Cathy A. Rakowski10Gender, Popular Participation, and the State in Chávez’s VenezuelaSujatha FernandesA Few Concluding ThoughtsKaren KampwirthNotes on ContributorsIndex

Karen Kampwirth is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at Knox College. Her two previous books with Penn State Press are Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba (2003) and, co-edited with Victoria González, Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right (2001).

“The case studies in this book offer a compelling and nuanced view of a multifaceted reality: populism is extremely difficult to grasp, both theoretically and empirically, and its complexity and ambiguity also apply to its gendered underpinnings. As the more general debate still unfolds as to whether Latin American populism is or has been a liberating or a controlling force toward the disfranchised masses, the same uncertainty prevails regarding its effects on women. Given the elusive nature of the topic itself, this book as a whole may raise more questions than it answers, but the editor and each of the individual contributors have done an outstanding job in giving the reader highly useful and intelligent insights into the role that gender plays in Latin American politics.”—Victor Armony, Université du Québec à Montréal

• ContentsForewordKurt WeylandAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Kampwirth1The Politics of Opportunity: Mexican Populism Under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis EcheverríaJocelyn Olcott2Changing Images of Male and Female in Ecuador: José María Velasco Ibarra and Abdalá BucaramXimena Sosa-Buchholz3Gender, Clientelistic Populism, and Memory: Somocista and Neo-Somocista Women’s Narratives in Liberal NicaraguaVictoria González-Rivera4From Working Mothers to Housewives: Gender and Brazilian Populism from Getúlio Vargas to Juscelino KubitschekJoel Wolfe5Women and Populism in BrazilMichael Conniff6Populist Continuities in “Revolutionary” Peronism? A Comparative Analysis of the Gender Discourses of the First Peronism (1946–1955) and the MontonerosKarin Grammático7Populism from Above, Populism from Below: Gender Politics Under Alberto Fujimori and Evo MoralesStéphanie Rousseau8Populism and the Feminist Challenge in Nicaragua: The Return of Daniel OrtegaKaren Kampwirth9Waking Women Up? Hugo Chávez, Populism, and Venezuela’s “Popular” WomenGioconda Espina and Cathy A. Rakowski10Gender, Popular Participation, and the State in Chávez’s VenezuelaSujatha FernandesA Few Concluding ThoughtsKaren KampwirthNotes on ContributorsIndex

Karen Kampwirth is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at Knox College. Her two previous books with Penn State Press are Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba (2003) and, co-edited with Victoria González, Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right (2001).

“The case studies in this book offer a compelling and nuanced view of a multifaceted reality: populism is extremely difficult to grasp, both theoretically and empirically, and its complexity and ambiguity also apply to its gendered underpinnings. As the more general debate still unfolds as to whether Latin American populism is or has been a liberating or a controlling force toward the disfranchised masses, the same uncertainty prevails regarding its effects on women. Given the elusive nature of the topic itself, this book as a whole may raise more questions than it answers, but the editor and each of the individual contributors have done an outstanding job in giving the reader highly useful and intelligent insights into the role that gender plays in Latin American politics.”—Victor Armony, Université du Québec à Montréal

• ContentsForewordKurt WeylandAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Kampwirth1The Politics of Opportunity: Mexican Populism Under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis EcheverríaJocelyn Olcott2Changing Images of Male and Female in Ecuador: José María Velasco Ibarra and Abdalá BucaramXimena Sosa-Buchholz3Gender, Clientelistic Populism, and Memory: Somocista and Neo-Somocista Women’s Narratives in Liberal NicaraguaVictoria González-Rivera4From Working Mothers to Housewives: Gender and Brazilian Populism from Getúlio Vargas to Juscelino KubitschekJoel Wolfe5Women and Populism in BrazilMichael Conniff6Populist Continuities in “Revolutionary” Peronism? A Comparative Analysis of the Gender Discourses of the First Peronism (1946–1955) and the MontonerosKarin Grammático7Populism from Above, Populism from Below: Gender Politics Under Alberto Fujimori and Evo MoralesStéphanie Rousseau8Populism and the Feminist Challenge in Nicaragua: The Return of Daniel OrtegaKaren Kampwirth9Waking Women Up? Hugo Chávez, Populism, and Venezuela’s “Popular” WomenGioconda Espina and Cathy A. Rakowski10Gender, Popular Participation, and the State in Chávez’s VenezuelaSujatha FernandesA Few Concluding ThoughtsKaren KampwirthNotes on ContributorsIndex