Grassroots Participation and Feminist Gender Identities: A case study of women from the popular sector in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
- Creator
- Padilla, Beatriz
Grassroots Participation and Feminist Gender Identities: A case study of women from the popular sector in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
Author examines women's participation in popular organization during the 1990s. She also examines how women's participation and engagement in these organizations is related to the process of gender identities formation. Author investigates whether or not poor women experience, as they become involved in local organizations, a process of empowerment that nurture their self-esteem influencing the pattern of feminist gender identity. Author summarizes social and political events that had an impact on the mobilization of poor women in Peru. Women who are active in popular organizations gain gender consciousness which through activism, leads them to developing feminist gender identities and become feminist or adopt feminist identities.
- Creator
- Padilla, Beatriz