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This is a pioneering work. Written from a marxist/feminist point of view, it examines issues surrounding Latin American women, men and the nation. . . . approaches questions of development, education, history, ideology, discourse, culture and politics. . . .discusses definitions of populism and Peronism established by Laclau, Hollander and de Ipola, and examines the background factors that enabled Peronism to flourish during the 1940s and early 1950s. She looks at the increasingly authoritarianism of the regime after the death of Eva Duarte de Pern. . . . A personal analysis of Evitas speeches is given and reflections offered on the nature of womens political behavior in Argentina. The book contains a Preface written by a leading figure in the area of Gender and Development, Dr. Kate Young who sets the issues in an international context. An Epilogue compares and contrasts icons like Evita and Diana and points to a need to go beyond present imagined borders in our thinking about gender and the nation. Dr. Robert Gurney.
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