This month featuring books on Women’s Studies from Rutgers University Press

THE POLITICS OF WOMEN’S EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA (WOMEN AND CULTURE SERIES)

Editors: Jill Ker Conway, Susan C. Bourque

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

ISBN-13: 9780472104468 

The book presents the voice of women and men who are working to improve women’s position through education. It raises important questions for readers from both high- and low-income countries about whether formal or non- formal education will best serve women's needs, and whether state or private initiatives are more likely to succeed in raising women's status through the delivery of knowledge.

Countries covered include India, Pakistan, Korea, the Philippines, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Each author locates women's education in the larger national context, thus unraveling the matrix that links gender and education to race, ethnicity, social class, and political change.

LATINA LEADERSHIP: LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION ACROSS COMMUNITIES

Editor, Contributor: Laura Gonzales & 14 more

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

ISBN-13: 9780815637301

Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. Contributors illustrate how they navigate institutionalized oppression while sustaining themselves and their communities both in and outside of the academy. The collection also outlines the many identities embedded within the term “Latina,” showcasing how Latina scholars grapple with various experiences while seeking to remain accountable to each other and to their families and communities. This book serves as a model and a source of support for emerging Latina leaders who can learn from the stories shared in this volume.

BE BOLD? BE BRAVE! 11 LATINAS WHO MADE U.S. HISTORY

Author: Naibe Reynoso, Jone Leal (Illustrator)

Publisher: Con Todo Press

ISBN-13: 9781733710305

Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas who made U.S. History, Sé Audaz! Sé Valiente! 11 Latinas que hicieron historia en los Estados Unidos is a bilingual book that highlights 11 Latinas who excelled in various fields including medicine, science, sports, art and politics. Some of the women highlighted include Antonia Novello (first female Surgeon General in the U.S.), Ellen Ochoa (first Latina to go to space), Sonia Sotomayor (first Latina Supreme Court Justice), Rita Moreno (first Latina to win an Oscar), Selena (Mexican-American pop music icon), and Pura Belpre (first Latina to incorporate and promote bilingual literacy in Public Libraries).

LATINAS LEADING SCHOOLS: HISPANICS IN EDUCATION AND ADMINISTRATION

Authors: Melissa Martinez, Sylvia Méndez-Morse

Publisher: Information Age Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781648023576

As the first scholarly book of its kind, this edited volume brings together educational leadership scholars and practitioners from across the country whose research focuses on the unique contributions and struggles that Latinas face while leading schools and districts. Latina administrators have reported challenges related to isolation, lack of mentoring, resistance from those who expect a more linear, hierarchical form of leadership, and balancing varying professional and personal roles and aspirations, among others. The impetus for this book is to acknowledge, explore, theorize, and expand our understanding of Latinas’ success as school and district leaders.

This month featuring books on Women’s Studies from Rutgers University Press

FROM HOMEMAKERS TO BREADWINNERS TO COMMUNITY LEADERS

Author: Noma Fuentes-Mayorga

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN-13:  9781978822122

In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City. This volume provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes to our understanding of the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York. 

WOMEN IN POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

Author: Nikki Craske

Publisher:  

ISBN-13: 9780813526935

This book provides a comprehensive view of women’s political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions, and feminisms. Although women remain heavily underrepresented in political life, Nikki Craske explores the ways in which they have become more effective in the public arena as the context of politics has altered. This powerful book analyzes the gains made since the 1950s while scrutinizing the challenges and difficulties which still constrain women’s political participation.

WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Editor: Elizabeth Maier, Nathalie Lebon

Publisher:

ISBN-13: 9780813547299

This volume brings together a group of scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women’s experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Contributors explore the emergence of the region’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this book represents women’s transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect realities, understand alternatives, and promote gender democracy.

DEMANDING JUSTICE AND SECURITY

Editor: Rachel Sieder

Publisher:

ISBN-13: 9780813587929

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists.