Contents

• Preface: Gender Que Pica un Poco / Ruth Behar
• Introduction: A Desalambrar: Unfencing Gender’s Place in Research on Latin America / Janise Hurtig, Rosario Montoya and Lessie Jo Frazier
• 1. Gendered Knowledge in Particular Places
• 1. Debating Women: Gendered Lessons in a Venezuelan Classroom / Janise Hurtig
• 2. "To Act Like a Man": Masculinity, Resistance, and Authority in the Ecuadorian Andes / Barry J. Lyons
• 3. Women’s Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua / Rosario Montoya
• 2. Gender’s Place in Reproducing and Challenging Institutions and Ideologies
• 4. Forging Democracy and Locality: Democratization, Mental Health, and Reparations in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier
• 5. "What the Strong Owe to the Weak": Rationality, Domestic Violence, and Governmentality in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Ana Maria Alonso
• 6. Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals / Susan Paulson
• 7. The Racial-Moral Politics of Place: Mestizas and Intellectuals in Turn-of-the-Century Peru / Marisol de la Cadena
• 3. Gender in Movement(s)
• 8. Engendering Leadership: Indigenous Women Leaders in the Ecuadorian Andes / Emma Cervone
• 9. Latinas on the Border: The Common Ground of Economic Displacements and Breakthroughs / Victor M. Ortiz
• 10. "Making a Scene": Travestis and the Gendered Politics of Space in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Charles H. Klein
• 11. By Night, a Street Rite: "Public" Women of the Night on the Streets of Mexico City / Marta Lamas
• 4. Critical Commentaries
• 12. Against Marianismo / Marysa Navarro
• 13. Understanding Gender in Latin America / Sonia Montesino
• 14. Local/Global: A View from Geography / Altha J. Cravey
• Postscript: Gender in Place and Culture / June Nash