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  • La Lucha

    Latin American Feminism Today

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Series series Essays
    From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Explorers Dreamers and Thieves

    Latin American Writers in the British Museum

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Series series Essays
    Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives.This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms – which saw ten Latin American authors write stories inspired by objects from their countries held by the British Museum – the curatorial team at the Museum ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

    Writings, 2000-2010

    by Cherríe Moraga ...
    A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Zapatista Experience

    Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy

    by Jérôme Baschet ...
    Translated by Traductores Rebeldes Autónomos Cronopios ...
    An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    by Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Meanings of Macho

    Being a Man in Mexico City

    by Matthew C. Gutmann ...
    Series Book 3 - Men and Masculinity
    In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Paulo Freire Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Paulo Freire

    by Jasmine Collins ...
    This book is your ultimate Paulo Freire resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paulo Freire's whole picture right away. Get countless Paulo Freire facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Paulo Freire Handbook is the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tsunami

    Women’s Voices from Mexico

    by Heather Cleary, Gabriela Jauregui ...
    Translated by Julia Sanches, Diana J. Torres, Sara Uribe, Zapatista Army for National Liberation ...
    Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, groundbreaking force.Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures. Tackling gender violence, community building, #MeToo, Indigenous rights, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Porque Estamos Aquí

    Puerto Rican Feminisms In but Against Empire

    Edited by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón ...
    A future classic collection of Puerto Rican feminist writing that spans time, terrain, and phases, invokes voices across generations and fields, and bridges island and diaspora.In her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a feminism to ground her work and validate the women who paved her way—but in her search for a specific ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD