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Author:   Julie Shayne ,  Margaret Randall
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781438452456

ISBN 10:   1438452454
Pages:   383
Publication Date:   01 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword: The Thing about Taking Risks Margaret Randall Introduction: Research, Risk, and Activism: Feminists' Stories of Social Justice Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle Del Cielo los Vieron Llegar/From the Sky They Saw Them Coming Nora Patrich Part 1. Texts, Stories, and Activism Introduction to Part 1: Texts, Stories, and Activism Jessica Monteiro Manfredi 1. Writing and Activism Carmen Rodriguez 2. Absence in Memories: Reading Stories of Survival in Argentina Mahala Lettvin 3. Chilean Exiles and Their Feminist Stories Julie Shayne 4. Navigating the Cuban Ideological Divide: Research on the Independent Libraries Movement Marisela Fleites-Lear Part 2. Performed Stories of Social Justice Introduction to Part 2: Performed Stories of Social Justice Jessica Monteiro Manfredi 5. We Also Built the City of Medellin: Deplazadas' Family Albums as Feminist Archival Activism Tamera Marko 6. Who Owns the Archive? Community Media in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez Robin Garcia 7. Echoes of Injustice: Performative Activism and the Femicide Plaguing Ciudad Juarez Christina Marin Part 3. Activist Stories from the Grassroots Introduction to Part 3: Activist Stories from the Grassroots Julie Shayne 8. Feminist Tensions: Race, Sex Work, and Women's Activism in Bahia Erica Lorraine Williams 9. Latina Battered Immigrants, Citizenship, and Inequalities: Reflections on Activist Research Roberta Villalon 10. Rural Feminism and Revolution in Nicaragua: Voices of the Companeras Shelly Grabe Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity and Privilege Julie Shayne and Kristy Lessle Afterword: Mother's Day Julie Shayne Contributors Index

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Julie Shayne took a risk with this book, and the result is impressive: By challenging the activism-research divide that US academies so often sustain, the authors in this collection challenge epistemological as well as national, race, class, age, and gender boundaries. Taking Risks is a must read for researchers and students alike! - Amy Lind, editor of Development, Sexual Rights, and Global Governance

Shayne's edited volume sheds light on the real everyday and institutional challenges to doing feminist and activist research in the Americas ... Highly recommended. - CHOICE Editor Julie Shayne makes a strong case that reflections of feminist risk-taking of varying kinds and degrees help us recognize both the challenges and benefits that can result. For this reason, the reflexive volume will be helpful to scholars engaging in feminist research in Latin America and other Southern/non-Western contexts. - Gender & Society Julie Shayne took a risk with this book, and the result is impressive: By challenging the activism-research divide that US academies so often sustain, the authors in this collection challenge epistemological as well as national, race, class, age, and gender boundaries. Taking Risks is a must read for researchers and students alike! - Amy Lind, editor of Development, Sexual Rights, and Global Governance

The strength of this volume lies in the intersection of fascinating case studies on contemporary feminist activism in the Americas with ample conversation about feminist methodological practices ... highly useful for graduate students, junior and more senior scholars who want to ensure that their research is accountable to and useful for the communities that they study. - The Latin Americanist Shayne's edited volume sheds light on the real everyday and institutional challenges to doing feminist and activist research in the Americas ... Highly recommended. - CHOICE Editor Julie Shayne makes a strong case that reflections of feminist risk-taking of varying kinds and degrees help us recognize both the challenges and benefits that can result. For this reason, the reflexive volume will be helpful to scholars engaging in feminist research in Latin America and other Southern/non-Western contexts. - Gender & Society Julie Shayne took a risk with this book, and the result is impressive: By challenging the activism-research divide that US academies so often sustain, the authors in this collection challenge epistemological as well as national, race, class, age, and gender boundaries. Taking Risks is a must read for researchers and students alike! - Amy Lind, editor of Development, Sexual Rights, and Global Governance

Author Information

Julie Shayne is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell and Affiliate Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. She is the author of They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism and The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba.

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