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Jeffrey W. Rubin - Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women´s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration - 9780822354062 - V9780822354062
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Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women´s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration

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Description for Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women´s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration Hardback. A father-daughter research team tell the behind-the-scenes story of a social movement started by a group of Brazilian women in 1986 in order to secure economic rights for women and transform their roles in homes and communities. Num Pages: 200 pages, 26 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women's roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality.

Starting in 2002, Rubin and Sokoloff-Rubin traveled together to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354062
SKU
V9780822354062
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About Jeffrey W. Rubin
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University, where he is a Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. Emma Sokoloff-Rubin is a student at Yale University Law School. 

Reviews for Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women´s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration
"Sustaining Activism is a highly unusual book, full of rich insights and fun to read. Authored by a father and daughter, each with a distinct voice, it is a work of engaged ethnographic research that involved extraordinary collaboration both between the two authors and between the authors and a group of women activists in southern Brazil. In contrast with many ... Read more

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