Hemisphere articles from January 1 1999

Hemisphere archives from January 1 1999

Dear friends, colleagues and subscribers,.(mujeres en Latino América)(TA: women in Latin America)
January 1, 1999... In early March of this year, Bolivia's only former female president, Lydia Gueiler Tejada, was honored at a reception to launch the release of her autobiography. Much has been written about Gueiler's brief period as president (November...

Split Visions.(crítica de Roberta Menchú.)(TA: a critic of Roberta Menchu.)
January 1, 1999... The woman at the airport counter is screaming. Her angry words shouted in English with a Dominican Spanish accent. Her body tense but shaking as though an electrical current were charging through her. The woman's words are almost unintelligible...

Panama Votes No.(referendo que permitiría a un presidente reelegirse en derrotada)(TA: reelections of a president referendum defeated)
January 1, 1999... On August 30, 1998, Panama's voters soundly defeated the government's proposal to allow presidential re-election. Mireya Moscoso, president of the Arnulfista party and candidate for president in 1994 and 1999, triumphantly claimed victory....

The Women's Studies Major at Florida International University.
January 1, 1999... A More Rewarding Choice: New Knowledge for a New World The Women's Studies Program at Florida International University offers a B.A., an academic certificate and elective courses. Students with a declared major in another field may...

Guarani Suicide.(pobreza e incertidumbre los lleva tomar el camino fácil.)(TA: poverty and despair lead them to the easy way out.)
January 1, 1999... Paraguay's Guarani Indians are killing themselves at an alarming rate, 25 times more frequently than the rest of the rural population. Most suicides have been reported in a cluster of Guarani communities near the Brazilian border. In one town,...

Submerged Histories.(Columna)
January 1, 1999... Cautionary tales from Latin America For nearly a decade now in the post-Cold War world of the End of History, with its economics-derived social science, we have witnessed the growth of a global financial system powerfully intertwined with...

The Abortion Debate.(Bolivia, un estudio-)(TA: Bolivia, a study case.)
January 1, 1999... Church and state confront social realities in Latin America According to a 1996 report by the World Health Organization, Latin America has the highest incidence of illegal abortions of any other region on the planet. The report, which...

Brutal Legacy.(aspectos económicos de la violencia familiar en América Latina)(TA: economic aspects of domestic violence in Latin America)(Columna)
January 1, 1999... The socioeconomic costs of domestic violence in Latin America Domestic violence is a serious social problem in Latin America, as it is in most parts of the world. According to a series of surveys commissioned by the Women's Development Unit...

Families and feminism.(Nicaragua)(TA: Nicaragua)(Columna)
January 1, 1999... If a man has relationships with three different women and children with all of them, whom then should he marry? This is a difficult question and one which left Luis González, Nicaragua's designated minister of the family, speechless. It also...

The Missing Element.(asuntos sociales envolviendo a mujeres en Perú.)(TA: social issues regarding women in Peru.)
January 1, 1999... Gender and health sector reform in Peru Following the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the economic adjustments required to stem the rampant inflation that resulted, governments across the region are experimenting with state...

Who betrays Ana Negra?(juicio de la Inquisición a esclava; América Latina)(TA: trial of slave by Inquisition; Latin America)(Columna)
January 1, 1999... Strategies for Latin American women's history Historians continue to debate the necessary directions and commitments of the women's, feminist and gender histories of Latin America. This article joins the discussion by looking at three...

Massa-girls.(Conrado W. Massaguer, ilustrador; representaciones de mujeres; Cuba)(TA: Conrado W. Massaguer, illustrator; portrayal of women; Cuba)(Columna)
January 1, 1999... Female beauty and images of Cuban national identity, 1908-1940 Before and after Cuba's independence from Spain, politics and popular literature were inextricably joined in journalistic essays and cartoons. Popular literary traditions...

Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America.(Reseña)
January 1, 1999... Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America by Lars Schoultz Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 480 pages. $19.95 (paperback) The US quest for hegemony in Latin America Spread the...

Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba; Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music.(Reseña)
January 1, 1999... Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1995. Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music by Deborah Pacini Hernández ...

Women in the Americas.(bibliografía sobre la condición de la mujer en América Latina)(TA: bibliography on condition of women in Latin America)(Columna)
January 1, 1999... Although feminism has proven to be one of the most potent forces of the twentieth century, women's rights still lag far behind those of men in all areas of the world. This trend is evident in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the...