The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader (Pitt Latin American Series) Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction. The Costa Rican Women's Movement and Costa Rican Feminism in the Early 1990s: Multiple, Dynamic, Action-Oriented
I	The Varying Faces of the Costa Rican Women's Movement and Costa Rican Feminism	1
1	Different Times, Women, Visions: The Deep Roots of Costa Rican Feminism	5
2	The Group Ventana: An Assessment	13
3	Improving the Quality of Women's Daily Lives: Costa Rica's Centro Feminista de Informacion y Accion	19
4	The Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses, a Popular Movement: An Impassioned Plea for Action-Oriented Feminism	24
5	Women's Liberation from Servitude and Overprotection	29
II	Making Women Visible in Costa Rican History	35
6	Women in Colonial Costa Rica: A Significant Presence	39
7	Contradictory Aspects of Costa Rican Women's History During the Nineteenth Century	52
8	The Suffragist Movement in Costa Rica, 1889-1949: Centennial of Democracy?	61
9	Unusual Costa Rican Women: Three Who Were Proclaimed "Distinguished Citizens of the Nation"	84
10	Peasant Women's Autobiographies: Women's Double Contribution to the Rural Economy	89
III	The Quest for Women's Equality	99
11	The Law and Women's Lives: Contradictions and Struggles	103
12	Negotiating Women's Legal Equality: Four Versions of a Law	111
13	Leading Arguments Against Women's Legal Equality: Highlights of a National Debate	119
14	Redefining Political Equality: More Than Including Women	127
IV	Women Suffering Discrimination	137
15	Women Heads of Household in Costa Rica's Limon Province: The Effects of Class Modified by Race and Gender	141
16	The Lesbian Feminist Group Las Entendidas	147
17	Women with Disabilities: Between Sexism and Handicappism	153
18	Never to Cry Alone Again: Women and Violence in Costa Rica	160
19	Father-Daughter Incest: Case Studies in Costa Rica	170
V	Women's Organizations and Organizations Working with Women	181
20	Peace Corps Volunteers See Working-Class Women's Realities	185
21	Women as Leaders in the Costa Rican Cooperative Movement	192
22	The Struggle for Housing in Costa Rica: The Transformation of Women into Political Actors	198
23	Long-Term Survival of a Costa Rican Women's Crafts Cooperative: Approaches to Problems of Rapid Growth at CASEM in the Santa Elena-Monteverde Region	210
24	Reconceptualizing the Theory of Women in Organizations: Contributions of Feminist Analysis	234
VI	The Women's Movement and Feminism in the Arts	245
25	Feminist Visions: Four Women Artists in Costa Rica	248
26	Women and Love: Myths and Stereotypes in Popular Songs Broadcast in Costa Rica	262
27	Yadira Calvo: Costa Rican Feminist Writer par Excellence	269
VII	The Constantly Evolving Status of Women's Studies	277
28	From CIEM to IEM: The Consolidation of Women's Studies at the Universidad Nacional	282
29	Gender Studies at the Universidad de Costa Rica	287
30	CSUCA's Approach to Women's Studies and Its Projected Program in Central America	293
31	Timely, Relevant, Trustworthy, Precise, Ongoing: Toward a Gender-in-Development Information Network	298
32	Women's Presence in the University: The Case of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia	304
33	Problems of Joint Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Studies: An Effort to Integrate Disciplines for More Fruitful Analysis	310
34	The Predictability of Cesarean-Section Births: A Case Study of Students in Costa Rican Childbirth Classes	316
	Conclusion for an Action-Oriented Research Agenda	334
	Glossary	341
	Index	357