Taking risks : feminist activism and research in the Americas / edited by Julie Shayne ; foreword by Margaret Randall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- About the cover -- Monument to civilians massacred at Plaza de Mayo / Nora Patrich -- Foreword -- The thing about taking risks / Margaret Randall -- Introduction -- Research, risk, and activism : feminists' stories of social justice / Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle -- Section onepart one: texts, stories, and activism -- Writing and activism / Carmen Rodríguez -- Absence in memories : reading stories of survival in Argentina / Mahala Lettvin -- Chilean exiles and their feminist stories / Julie Shayne -- Navigating the Cuban ideological divide : research on the independent libraries movement / Marisela Fleites-Lear -- Section twopart two: performed stories of social justice -- We also built the city of Medellín : Deplazadas' family albums as feminist archival activism / Tamera Marko -- Who owns the archive? : community media in contemporary Venezuela / Robin Garcia -- Echoes of injustice : performative activism and the femicide plaguing Ciudad Juárez / Christina Marín -- Section threepart three: activist stories from the grassroots -- Feminist tensions : race, sex work, and women/s activism in Bahia / Erica Lorraine Williams -- Latina battered immigrants, citizenship and inequalities : reflections on activist research / Roberta Villalón -- Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua : voices of the Compañeras / Shelly Grabe -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Mother's day / Julie Shayne -- About the authorscontributors -- Index.

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