Unfinished Transitions Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996
- List Price: $94.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/2000
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This analysts of Venezuelan women's organizing traces a sixty-year struggle to democratize political practice and represent women's interests. It also helps to explain some of the "unfinished business' of Latin American democratization: why women have had difficulty participating in regimes they fought to restore, and how they seek inclusion.
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Friedman's innovative theoretical approach uses gender analysis to explain the impact of the "political opportunity structure" -- the institutions, actors, and discourses -- of democratization on women's participation.
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