Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives write by Felix Matos-Rodriguez. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.
Puerto Rican Women's History
Puerto Rican Women's History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puerto Rican Women's History write by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Puerto Rican Women's History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A broad survey of topics on gender and the history of Puerto Rican women, both on the island and in the diaspora. Organized chronologically and covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, essays deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration, and Puerto Rican women in New York. Reviewing thirty years of historiographical material, the editors and contributors provide the first comprehensive study in English of gender and the history of Puerto Rican women. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies, Latino/a studies, Puerto Rican studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, and cultural studies.
The Puerto Rican Woman
The Puerto Rican Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Puerto Rican Woman write by Edna Acosta-Belén. This book was released on 1986. The Puerto Rican Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this revised and expanded second edition of The Puerto Rican Woman, Acosta-Belen has collected the most current interdisciplinary studies covering a variety of perspectives on the status of the Puerto Rican woman.
Matters of Choice
Matters of Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Matters of Choice write by Iris Lopez. This book was released on 2008-12-10. Matters of Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries. In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican women from five different families in Brooklyn, Lopez untangles the interplay between how women make fertility decisions and their social, economic, cultural, and historical constraints. Weaving together the voices of these women, she covers the history of sterilization and eugenics, societal pressures to have fewer children, a lack of adequate health care, patterns of gender inequality, and misinformation provided by doctors and family members. Lopez makes a stirring case for a model of reproductive freedom, taking readers beyond victim/agent debates to consider a broader definition of reproductive rights within a feminist anthropological context.
Nationalist Heroines
Nationalist Heroines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nationalist Heroines write by Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim. This book was released on 2016-05-02. Nationalist Heroines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear that they would free Puerto Rico from colonial rule. A confrontation between the Nationalists and the colonial police in October 1935 left four Nationalists dead. Albizu Campos and seven of his aides were convicted on seditious charges and sent to a federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia. His followers attempted to hold a demonstration in Ponce, Albizu Campos' hometown, and were gunned down by the police: nineteen were killed and more than one hundred and fifty were wounded. Eight Nationalists then attempted to kill Governor, Blanton Winship. Back in Puerto Rico in 1947, Albizu Campos began to plan for a revolution, which he launched on October 30, 1950. A commando unit of five attacked the Governor's residence while others assaulted police stations in half a dozen cities and towns throughout the island. One woman (Doris Torresola) was shot while protecting her leader. The same day Blanca Canales was one of three to lead the revolt in Jayuya. Two days later, two Nationalists, residents of New York, attempted to kill, President Truman at Blair House, his temporary residence. Massive arrests followed and forty-one women were detained on suspicion they had conspired with the rebels. Two of the fifteen women indicted were sentenced to life in prison. Then, on March 1, 1954, another woman (Dolores Lebraon) led three male companions in the attack of the U.S. House of Representatives where five congressmen were shot for keeping Puerto Rico in bondage. Historians have largely overlooked the roles of these Nationalist women. Now the book, Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s seeks to rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in search of freeing their homeland"--Provided by publisher.
