Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityJASMINE GIDEON Researcher of Socio-Economic and Gender Issues, University of ManchesterMALA N. HTUN Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School UniversityMARK P. JONES Department of Political Science, Michigan State UniversityNIKI JOHNSON Researcher, Institute de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, UruguayFIONA MACAULAY Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of LondonSARAH RADCLIFFE Researcher, Department of Geography, University of CambridgeVIRGINIA VARGAS Member of the Peruvian NGO Centro de Mujeres: Flora TristánCERI WILLMOTT Freelance Consultant, Social Development

'This is a well-integrated set of case studies with a useful and informative introduction by the editors.' - Cathy A. Rakowski, Latin American Research Review

• List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Local, the Regional and the Global: Transforming the Politics of Rights; M.Molyneux & N.Craske Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-making: Electoral Quotas and Women's Leadership in Latin America; M.N.Htun & M.P.Jones Getting Rights for those without Representation: The Success of Conjunctural Coalition-building in Venezuela; E.J.Friedman Taking the Law into their Own Hands: Women, Legal Reform and Legal Literary in Brazil; F.Macaulay In Pursuit of the Right to be Free from Violence: The Women's Movements and State Accountability in Uruguay; N.Johnson Constructing Citizenship in the Poblaciónes of Santiago, Chile: The Role of Reproductive and Sexual Rights; C.Willmott Indigenous Women, Rights and the Nation-State in the Andes; S.A.Radcliffe Economic and Social Rights: Exploring Gender Differences in a Central American Context; J.Gideon The Struggle by Latin America Feminists for Rights and Autonomy; V.Vargas Index