First published in 1987. An evaluation of the decade, in conjunction with the 45th International Congress of Americanists, hosted by the University. of Los Andes in Bogotaì, Colombia, in July, 1985. This book grew out of a collaborative effort by North American, European, and Latin American researchers to synthesize what we have learned about the position of rural women in Latin America over the past decade.
Carmen Diana Deere is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Magdalena Le6n is director of research at the Asociaci6n Colombiana para Estudios de Poblacion (ACEP) in Bogota, Colombia.
Part 1Models of Development, Agrarian Policy, and the Economic Crisis, Part2 Comparative Perspectives on Development Initiatives