Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America

Natividad Gutiérrez Chong is Senior Researcher at the Institute de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics. Her previous publications include Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity (Ashgate, 2001 - with Alain Dieckhoff).

• Contents: Preface; Women and nationalisms, Natividad Gutiérrez Chong. Part 1 Struggle and Independence: Dolores Cacuango and the origin of the mother country; seed for the kichwización of the world, Gabriela Bernal Carrera; Nahua women's struggle: small spaces, enormous restrictions, Elena Lazos Chavero. Part 2 National Building and Identity: Fashioning Indians or beautiful savages: the case of Gaby Herbstein's Huellas, Arnd Schneider; Mimí Derba and Azteca Films: the rise of nationalism and the 1st Mexican woman film-maker, Irene García; Eréndira on horseback: variations on a tale of conquest and resistance, Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto; The role of the Mayan woman inside the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), Leticia Paredes Guerrero. Part 3 Multiculturalism and the Revival of Ethnicity: Women who know how to talk: gender, women, political participation and multiculturalism in Mexico, Margarita Zárate Vidal; Indigenous women, transnationality and re/narrativized social memory, María Eugenia Choque and Guillermo Delgado-P.; Engendering the 'right to have rights': the indigenous women's movement in Mexico and the practice of autonomy, Maylei Blackwell; Conclusion; Index.

'From the wars of independence and postcolonial nation-building to contemporary struggles over multiculturalism, this volume fills a crucial gap in our understanding of how women have played active roles in nationalist and anti-nationalist movements, as well as how gender informs historical understandings of national belonging and citizenship in Latin America.' Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati, USA