Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of   events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies   exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement   organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups.   Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women's participation in the political and   economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how   in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced   and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary   nature.    Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach   combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the   growth of several strands of women's activism and identifies how they have   helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined   boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her   analysis of this ambivalent and "unfinished" cultural project of modernity   in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of   various social sectors; women's community development initiatives and   responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist "issue   networks" in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador   and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist   movement.

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