Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America

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 Poblaciones 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