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Sustaining Activism – A Brazilian Women`s Movement and a Father–Daughter Collaboration

Autor Jeffrey W. Rubin, Emma Sokoloff–rubin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2013
In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women's roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality.Starting in 2002, Rubin and Sokoloff-Rubin travelled together to southern Brazil, where they interviewed activists over the course of ten years. Their vivid descriptions of women’s lives reveal the hard work of sustaining a social movement in the years after initial victories, when the political way forward was no longer clear and the goal of remaking gender roles proved more difficult than activists had ever imagined. Highlighting the tensions within the movement about how best to effect change, Sustaining Activism ultimately shows that democracies need social movements in order to improve people’s lives and create a more just society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822354215
ISBN-10: 0822354217
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 26 photographs, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

"Sustaining Activism is a highly unusual book, full of rich insights and fun to read. Authored by a father and daughter, each with a distinct voice, it is a work of engaged ethnographic research that involved extraordinary collaboration both between the two authors and between the authors and a group of women activists in southern Brazil. In contrast with many social-movement scholars and activists, the authors acknowledge that social movements can be messy and contradictory. Their absorbing account is analytically and emotionally very powerful."—Marc Edelman, Hunter College and Graduate Program, CUNY

"Sustaining Activism opens an intimate window onto the personal and political forces that propel grassroots women's activism in rural southern Brazil. Just as the women of Ibiraiaras and Sananduva invited Emma and Jeff into their kitchens and meeting halls, so the unique father-daughter dialogue that unfolds in this sophisticated yet highly accessible book lets us into those women's lives. This singular collaborative ethnography will be a treasured resource for students, scholars, and all those wishing to 're-enchant' politics."—Sonia E. Alvarez, Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics and Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"This absorbing book—combining history, politics, sociology, memoir—is ultimately beyond category, much like the individual activists in Brazil whom it traces. Unique individuals can and do join forces to make a movement, as the authors have joined forces to make this book. Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, each a distinct voice within a father-daughter team, exemplify the complex unities they write about so eloquently."—Mary Jo Salter, poet and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

"This slim book is free of academic jargon and instead exudes authenticity and positivity. The women's stories about their own histories and current circumstances are handled capably by the authors who acknowledge the interesting dynamics that play out as they interview women whose own fathers rarely let them leave the house or attend secondary school. High school and undergraduate students interested in Latin American politics and women's studies will especially find this intriguing and informative."--Jennifer Stout, Library Journal, February 25th 2013


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Cuprins

Emma's Preface ix
Jeff's Preface xi
Part I: Origins
1. Leaving Home / Emma 3
2. Transforming Southern Brazil / Jeff 16
3. Family Ties / Jeff 28
4. Gambling on Change / Emma 38
5. Fighting for Rights in Latin America / Jeff 50
Part II: The Enchantment of Activism
6. Holding Paradox / Emma 59
7. Six Meetings / Jeff 69
Gallery of Photos 87
8. Intimate Protest / Jeff 96
9. Demanding Speech and Enduring Silence / Emma 113
Part III: Moving Forward
10. "When You Speak of Changes" / Emma 123
11. Movements in Democracy / Jeff 136
Acknowledgments 161
Notes 167
Index 179

Descriere

In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of Brazil’s women’s movement of 1986.