Feminism Transmissions and Retransmissions [Paperback]

Adding to the debate on a range of issues, this book presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development of the feminist movement, affirmative action in the workplace, conceptual advances in regard to gender, and disagreements among feminists. Here in English for the first time, this?work offers invaluable insight into the theoretical and political tensions that have shaped Mexican feminism and the world at large.Prologue From Protesting to Making Proposals: Scenes from a Feminist Process Equality of Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Workplace Gender: Some Theoretical and Conceptual Advances Feminisms: Disagreements and Arguments

As Jean Franco remarks in the introduction to this extraordinary collection of essays, Marta Lamas remains required

reading for those wishing to understand the role of women in the project of redefining and promoting democracy in

the world. This translated collection of four of Lamas's key essays, many of which have been circulating for years

throughout Latin America, particularly in her home nation of Mexico, provides English readers an essential if not

classical set of insights into what Lamas calls the 'transmissions and retransmissions' of feminist thought that links

psychoanalysis to Marxism and anthropology. The essays range chronologically from Lamas's earliest writings in the

1970s through the early 21st century and cover four main topics: the political development of one sector of the

feminist movement in Mexico; a cross-cultural look at affirmative action in the workplace; conceptual advances in the

development of the gender concept; and a study of key disagreements among l~