Susan C Bourque
Biographic Data
| ID | 162485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan C Bourque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourque |
| SIGNATURE | BOURQUE S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Women, Technology, and International Development Ideologies
Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes. Most Scandalous Woman
Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru, by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, is an impressive and important addition to work on Latin American women and politics. Wallace Fuentes’s treatment of Portal is masterful. The author has given us an eloquent and exhaustively researched volume that blends a deep appreciation of her subject with a critical perspective. The result of this effort is an enhanced understanding of P…
Women's Place in the Andes
Reviewed by: Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology by Florence E. Babb Susan C. Bourque Florence E. Babb, Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 277 pp. For those who wish to understand the recent intellectual history of the study of Peruvian Andean women, Florence Babb’s remarkable book will be essential. In Women’s Place in the Andes, …
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
With attention to gender now firmly joining class and ethnicity as critical factors in the experience of Latin America, scholars have called for efforts to better understand how all three variables interact. The publication of Marcia Stephenson’s excellent book, Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia, is a substantial contribution to such efforts.Stephenson begins with the assertion that modernization and miscegenation are inextricably linked and…
Professing Feminism
Apsa Treasurer's Report
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Apsa Treasurer's Report
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The Politics of Women's Education
Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin reveals the complex changes in women's education throughout the world. Although women have made remarkable progress, their educational equity remains illusive and politically contested. This volume offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what are the options for reform. The book presents the authentic voice of third w…
Books in review
Issues in Democratic Consolidation
Journal Article Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective, edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela Get access Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. 357 pp. Cloth, $42.95; …
EIGHT. Women, Technology, and International Development Ideologies
Democracy Without Peace
The twelve years of military rule in Peru between 1968 and 1980 witnessed few abuses of human rights, in marked contrast to the activities of military governments in Southern Cone countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Yet paradoxically, the return to democracy in Peru, with the election of Fernando Belaúnde in 1980 and Alan García in 1985, has brought sharp escalations in political violence and terror. Guerrilla activity by the Sendero Lum…
Policy Versus Politics
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Women Living Change
Experiments with Equality
A comparative examination of ethnic and gender policies in Peru demonstrates the profound difficulties posed for governments which attempt to develop policies to alleviate inequity. Bourque contrasts civilian and military regimes from 1963 to 1980, in the areas of agrarian and educational reform, and discusses government attempts to reduce inequity between the sexes. Both gender and ethnicity prove to be inadequate bases for public policy, howeve…
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru
Peasants in Transition
Multiple arenas for state expansion
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men
Campesinas and Comuneras
Politics an Unnatural Practice
Politics an Unnatural Practice
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Issues in Democratic Consolidation
Journal Article Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective, edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela Get access Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. 357 pp. Cloth, $42.95; …
Democracy Without Peace
The twelve years of military rule in Peru between 1968 and 1980 witnessed few abuses of human rights, in marked contrast to the activities of military governments in Southern Cone countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Yet paradoxically, the return to democracy in Peru, with the election of Fernando Belaúnde in 1980 and Alan García in 1985, has brought sharp escalations in political violence and terror. Guerrilla activity by the Sendero Lum…
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
With attention to gender now firmly joining class and ethnicity as critical factors in the experience of Latin America, scholars have called for efforts to better understand how all three variables interact. The publication of Marcia Stephenson’s excellent book, Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia, is a substantial contribution to such efforts.Stephenson begins with the assertion that modernization and miscegenation are inextricably linked and…
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Campesinas and Comuneras
Politics an Unnatural Practice
Campesinas and Comuneras
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men
Multiple arenas for state expansion
Peasants in Transition
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru
Women of the Andes
Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences
Experiments with Equality
A comparative examination of ethnic and gender policies in Peru demonstrates the profound difficulties posed for governments which attempt to develop policies to alleviate inequity. Bourque contrasts civilian and military regimes from 1963 to 1980, in the areas of agrarian and educational reform, and discusses government attempts to reduce inequity between the sexes. Both gender and ethnicity prove to be inadequate bases for public policy, howeve…
Women Living Change
Policy Versus Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Democracy Without Peace
The twelve years of military rule in Peru between 1968 and 1980 witnessed few abuses of human rights, in marked contrast to the activities of military governments in Southern Cone countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Yet paradoxically, the return to democracy in Peru, with the election of Fernando Belaúnde in 1980 and Alan García in 1985, has brought sharp escalations in political violence and terror. Guerrilla activity by the Sendero Lum…
EIGHT. Women, Technology, and International Development Ideologies
The Politics of Women's Education
Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin reveals the complex changes in women's education throughout the world. Although women have made remarkable progress, their educational equity remains illusive and politically contested. This volume offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what are the options for reform. The book presents the authentic voice of third w…
Books in review
Issues in Democratic Consolidation
Journal Article Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective, edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela Get access Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective edited by Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. 357 pp. Cloth, $42.95; …
Apsa Treasurer's Report
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Apsa Treasurer's Report
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Professing Feminism
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
With attention to gender now firmly joining class and ethnicity as critical factors in the experience of Latin America, scholars have called for efforts to better understand how all three variables interact. The publication of Marcia Stephenson’s excellent book, Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia, is a substantial contribution to such efforts.Stephenson begins with the assertion that modernization and miscegenation are inextricably linked and…
Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes. Most Scandalous Woman
Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru, by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, is an impressive and important addition to work on Latin American women and politics. Wallace Fuentes’s treatment of Portal is masterful. The author has given us an eloquent and exhaustively researched volume that blends a deep appreciation of her subject with a critical perspective. The result of this effort is an enhanced understanding of P…
Women's Place in the Andes
Reviewed by: Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology by Florence E. Babb Susan C. Bourque Florence E. Babb, Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 277 pp. For those who wish to understand the recent intellectual history of the study of Peruvian Andean women, Florence Babb’s remarkable book will be essential. In Women’s Place in the Andes, …
Women, Technology, and International Development Ideologies
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works)