In Review
When Women Rebel: The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru by Carol Andreas, Lawrence Hill & Company, 1985, 233 pp., $19.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). Eloquent and angry account of Peruvian Indian...
...to construct their own arguments or pursue these further...
...A collection of papers originally presented in 1984-1985, including two on Mexico City and one each on Sdo Paulo, Santo Domingo, New York, Buenos Aires, Medellin and San Miguelito (Panama...
...They go from Vilmar E. Faria's distressing statistics on metropolitan Sho Paulo (pop...
...Memoria del Pedregal, memoria de mujer: Testimonio de una colona by Alejandra Massolo, Mujeres para el Didlogo (Apdo...
...Although strongly partisan, and sympathetic to Sendero Luminoso, she scrupulously documents her arguments, which should not be ignored, even by those who disagree with her...
...to Jos6 Francisco Pefia G6mez's campaign statement, recounting how as mayor of Santo Domingo (1982-1986) he strove to meet great needs with scant resources...
...13 million), where $30 billion, or 12 times the present city budget would be needed to meet deficits in infrastructure, housing, etc...
...This "analytical textbook" is, as the author proclaims, "the first in two decades to bring under single authorship a separate treatment of every Latin American country...
...the Andean sierra, where land reforms have undermined women's autonomy and made them receptive to Sendero Luminoso...
...canning factories...
...Country essays on dependence and its foes are enlivened with energetic prose and jumbled metaphors...
...Postal 19-493, Mixcoac, 03910 Mexico, D.F...
...1988, 87 pp., $10 (paper...
...Cockcroft seeks to explain why that didn't happen and why the counterrevolutionary military governments themselves have been unable to remain in power...
...Cities in Crisis: The Urban Challenge in the Americas edited by Matthew Edel and Ronald G. Hellman...
...Matthew Edel's essay on New York is concise and coherent, but the author strains to make the case that it was analogous in any helpful way to Latin America...
...He then lists ten elements of Latin America's "new politics," including alliances (Marxists and Catholics), the "assertiveness of women as political actors," and the political movements of the urban poor...
...Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, CUNY, 156 pp., $26.95 (cloth), $11.95 (paper...
...Eloquent and angry account of Peruvian Indian women's struggles to protect their families and preserve traditions that give them a voice and dignity, in four contexts: the coastal fishing town of Chimbote, where women have unionized in Starkist and other U.S...
...Massolo's introduction, concluding reflections and footnotes to "Aurora's" words are helpful for understanding the social and political context, but the joy of this little book is the description by "Aurora" of the personal and communal dramas within the national drama of urbanization and homelessness...
...Neighbors in Turmoil: Latin America by James D. Cockcroft, Harper & Row, 1989, 649 pp., $26.50 (paper...
...This book should be most useful for undergraduate courses, shaking up some traditional views and giving students the elements (bibliography, statistics, etc...
...the urban shantytowns, especially in Lima...
...Includes a bibliography on "Women in Urban Issues and Social Movements...
...This testimony by one of the pioneer settlers of Mexico City's colonia of Santo Domingo, on the rocky terrain next to the campus of the National University, provides vivid details of three closely related processes: the political radicalization of a once-naive and humble poor person, the development of a community-based organization to protect and improve housing, and the struggle against machismo...
...and the Amazon jungle and most isolated mountain areas, where Andreas speaks of "ethnocide...
...When John Gerassi wrote The Great Fear in Latin America (1963), the "great fear" was that Marxist revolutions would seize power throughout the region...
Vol. 23 • November 1989 • No. 4
