Contents
Acknowledgments
Ilse Abshagen Leitinger - Introduction. The Costa Rican Women's Movement and Costa Rican Feminism in the Early 1990s: Multiple, Dynamic, Action-Oriented
I. The Varying Faces of the Costa Rican Women's Movement and Costa Rican Feminism
1. Yadira Calvo Fajardo - Different Times, Women, Visions: The Deep Roots of Costa Rican Feminism
2. Rosalía Camacho, Alda Facio Montejo, and Ligia Martín - The Group Ventana: An Assessment
3. Ana Carcedo, Monserrat Sagot, and Marta Trejos - Improving the Quality of Women's Daily Lives: Costa Rica's Centro Feminista de Información y Acción
4. Ana Hernández - The Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses, a Popular Movement: An Impassioned Plea for Action-Oriented Feminism
5. Carmen Naranjo Coto - Women's Liberation from Servitude and Overprotection
II. Making Women Visible in Costa Rican History
6. Cora Ferro Calabrese and Ana María Quirós Rojas - Women in Colonial Costa Rica: A Significant Presence
7. Clotilde Obregón Quesada - Contradictory Aspects of Costa Rican Women's History During the Nineteenth Century
8. Sara Sharratt - The Suffragist Movement in Costa Rica, 1889-1949: Centennial of Democracy?
9. Ana Isabel Gamboa Hernández and Sara Gurfinkiel Hermann - Unusual Costa Rican Women: Three Who Were Proclaimed "Distinguished Citizens of the Nation"
10. Zaira Escamilla Gutiérrez and Lorena Vargas Mora - Peasant Women's Autobiographies: Women's Double Contribution to the Rural Economy
III. The Quest for Women's Equality
11. Tatiana Soto Cabrera - The Law and Women's Lives: Contradictions and Struggles
12. Aixa Ansorena Montero - Negotiating Women's Legal Equality: Four Versions of a Law
13. Ana Elena Badilla Gómez - Leading Arguments Against Women's Legal Equality: Highlights of a National Debate
14. Alda Facio Montejo - Redefining Political Equality: More than Including Women
IV. Women Suffering Discrimination
15. Euginia López-Casas - Women Heads of Households in Costa Rica's Limón Province: The Effects of Class Modified by Race and Gender
16. Paquita Cruz - The Lesbian Feminist Group Las Entendidas
17. Paula Antezana Rimassa - Women with Disabilities: Between Sexism and Handicappism
18. Ana Carcedo - Never to Cry Alone Again: Women and Violence in Costa Rica
19. Gioconda Batres Méndez - Father-Daughter Incest: Case Studies in Costa Rica
V. Women's Organizations and Organizations Working with Women
20. Jessica Brown, Cynthia K. Green, Linda Pearl, and Vilma Pérez - Peace Corps Volunteers See Working-Class Women's Realities
21. Mireya Jiménez Guerra - Women as Leaders in the Costa Rican Cooperative Movement
22. Montserrat Sagot - The Struggle for Housing
23. Ilse Abshagen Leitinger - Long-Term Survival of a Costa Rican Women's Crafts Cooperative: Approaches to Problems of Rapid Growth at CASEM in the Santa Elena-Monteverde Region
24. Laura Guzman Stein - Reconceptualizing the Theory of Women in Organizations: Contributions of Feminist Analysis
VI. The Women's Movement and Feminism in the Arts
25. Sally R. Felton - Feminist Visions: Four Women Artists in Costa Rica
26. Sandra Castro Paniagua and Luisa Goncalves - Women and Love: Myths and Stereotypes in Popular Songs Broadcast in Costa Rica
27. Sonia de la Cruz Malavassi - Yadira Calvo: Costa Rican Feminist Writer par Excellence
VII. The Constantly Evolving Status of Women's Studies
28. Cora Ferro Calabrese - From CIEM to IEM: The Consolidation of Women's Studies at the Universidad Nacional
29. Laura Guzman Stein - Gender Studies at the Universidad de Costa Rica
30. Helga Jimenez - CSUCA's Approach to Women's Studies and Its Projected Program in Central America
31. Mafalda Sibille Martina - Timely, Relevant, Trustworthy, Precise, Ongoing: Toward a Gender-in-Development Information Network
32. Matilda Lopez Nunez - Women's Presence in the University: The Case of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia
33. Margarita Brenes Fonseca, May Brenes Marin, and Sandra Castro Paniagua - Problems of Joint Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Studies: An Effort to Integrate Disciplines for More Fruitful Analysis
34. Jennifer Kozlow-Rodriguez - The Predictability of Cesarean-Section Births: A Case Study of Students in Costa Rican Childbirth Classes
Ilse Abshagen Leitinger - Conclusion for an Action-Oriented Research Agenda
Glossary
Index