Essays about: "Mujeres Creando"

Found 1 essay containing the words Mujeres Creando.

  1. 1. “Half women, half men” - A field study on gender complementarity and its impact on female participation in community politics in rural Bolivia.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Cecilia Emilsson; [2016]
    Keywords : community politics.; machismo; decolonisation; Evo Morales; Mujeres Creando; Bartolina Sisa; postcolonial feminism; peasant unions; indigenous groups; gender complementarity; Bolivia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Gender complementarity is an indigenous model of gender relations that values the female position and her tasks by tradition the same way as that of the man. The idea is that the man and woman complement each other as opposite parts of the cosmos. In Bolivia, with 65% of its population and the president being indigenous, the concept is widely used. READ MORE