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Gender Studies

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Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Women of the Andes

Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns

By Susan C. Bourque & Kay Barbara Warren
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences

When Women Have Wings

Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia

By Donna F. Murdock
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies

A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellín, Colombia's most embattled working class districts

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Co-wives and Calabashes

Second Edition

By Sally Price
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Latin American Studies
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