Marjorie Agosín
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Women, Gender, and Human Rights
A Global Perspective
Edited by Marjorie Agosín
Rutgers University Press
Women, Gender, and Human Rights is the first collection of essays that encompass a global perspective on women and a wide range of issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the articles were written expressly for this volume by internationally known experts in the fields of government, bioethics, medicine, public affairs, literature, history, anthropology, law, and psychology.
- Copyright year: 2001
Fire from the Andes
Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
University of New Mexico Press
South American women authors look at the female experience.
- Copyright year: 1998
Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America
Edited by Marjorie Agosín
University of Texas Press
Fifteen essays that collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2005
Amigas
Letters of Friendship and Exile
University of Texas Press
This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their curre
- Copyright year: 2001
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
A Tribute to Barbara Mujica
Edited by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas
University of Delaware Press
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers.
- Copyright year: 2019
A Map of Hope
Women's Writing on Human Rights—An International Literary Anthology
Edited by Marjorie Agosín
Rutgers University Press
A Map of Hope presents diverse women writers who have created a literature of global consciousness and justice. Their works give a face, an image, and a human dimension to the dehumanization of human rights violations. The collection allows readers to hear voices that have decided to make a difference. It goes beyond geography and ethnic groups; writers from around the globe are united by the universal dimensions of horror and deprivation, as well as the unique common struggle for justice and solidarity.
- Copyright year: 1999
A Cross and a Star
Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
University of New Mexico Press
In this classic memoir which explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era.
- Copyright year: 2022
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
A Tribute to Barbara Mujica
Edited by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas
University of Delaware Press
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers.
- Copyright year: 2019
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